Rich Lowry (original) (raw)
How our schools' foolishness is courting 'civilizational failure'
May 15, 2026 | 9:47am
Our children aren’t learning to read — first because we’ve forgotten how to teach them, then because we're outsourcing their education to screens.
Socialist AOC targets billionaires — and aims to make us all poorer
May 13, 2026 | 3:11pm
Typical: Socialist AOC is taking a strength of American society — its openness to talent and innovation — and portraying it as a fundamental problem.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is hell-bent on destroying the Supreme Court
May 8, 2026 | 7:00am
The Supreme Court’s decision in a landmark gerrymandering case makes leftists — including one of the court's own justices — even more determined to delegitimize it.
Dems' fingerprints are all over the Spirit Airlines crime scene
May 5, 2026 | 10:26pm
The demise of Spirit Airlines was wanton economic destruction masquerading as antitrust enforcement.
Operation Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of 'Drill, baby, drill'
May 3, 2026 | 10:00am
The Western hemisphere stands to gain from the Iran crisis, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz underlines the inherent risks of reliance on Middle Eastern suppliers.
Trump defies assassins — and shows why he's a history-maker
April 29, 2026 | 6:30am
President Trump's omnipresence, ambition and willingness to exercise power are making him one of the most dominant figures in American political history.
Hasan Piker's 'cool crimes' chatter exposes the left's toxic rage
April 24, 2026 | 5:11pm
Is robbing the Louvre a good idea?
Michigan's 'Dearborn Dems' herald the Islamization of US politics
April 21, 2026 | 4:08pm
The trend will tie the Democratic Party even closer to campus radicalism — and will leave many Jewish Democrats politically homeless.
Here's what Code Pink and Pope Leo get wrong about war
April 17, 2026 | 7:00am
Military conflict is, at times, necessary and highly consequential; it can achieve beneficent ends, as well as awful ones.
Pope Leo needs to brush up his Bible on war and peace
April 14, 2026 | 6:11pm
The Bible is not an injunction for pacifism, and it doesn’t entail a condemnation of the Iran war.
How San Francisco is licking crime — and offering hope for America
April 11, 2026 | 8:00am
Unlike some of the city’s other adventures, this one is actually working out.
Why Trump's huge $1.5T defense budget is worth every penny
April 7, 2026 | 7:00am
It reflects a correct assessment of what should be the federal government’s priority — not funding social services, but providing for the common defense.
Why the Artemis II mission is exciting everyone so much
April 4, 2026 | 8:00am
BBC science editor Rebecca Morelle, who was covering the launch of Artemis II, couldn’t contain her enthusiasm when the first plumes of smoke spread out from the launch pad.
Gulf states' Iran scars push them closer to Trump — and Israel
March 31, 2026 | 7:25am
There’s no insurance policy against having a fanatic millenarian state as a neighbor.
What Jimmy Kimmel gets wrong about 'plumbers' like Markwayne Mullin
March 27, 2026 | 12:21pm
The late-night host took a shot at newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who used to run a plumbing business.
Why rescuing Christopher Columbus redeems America, too
March 23, 2026 | 7:34pm
Happy ending: An act of destruction seeking to change our public landscape and the story we tell about ourselves has been resisted and reversed.
Trump is owned by no one — driving some former allies nuts
March 19, 2026 | 7:17pm
We have never had a president who is so thoroughly his own man as Donald Trump.
Why freeing the Strait of Hormuz is America's burden to bear
March 17, 2026 | 6:17pm
Guarding the safe passage of commerce has been a core Anglo-American commitment for a couple of centuries, so this fight is on us.
Trump is obliterating Obama's Iran-appeasement plan — to America's benefit
March 13, 2026 | 3:19pm
But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs so directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran War.
Mamdani gets mugged by reality — after ISIS bombers target NYC
March 9, 2026 | 7:56pm
The mayor’s narrative of Islamic victimhood runs so deep that it's presumably hard for him to process that two Muslim men were more hateful than their right-wing adversaries.