Real Clear Politics

How Ukraine Wins

It took far too long, but House Speaker Mike Johnson showed true leadership in bringing Ukraine aid to a vote.

I Was Stabbed in the Eye at Yale

The school has allowed anti-Israel students to run roughshod over their most basic policies. Yesterday, I paid the price for their inaction.

The Coming Arab Backlash

Middle Eastern regimes-and America-ignore public anger at their peril

A Bipartisan House?

In my last dispatch, I described the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as looking like an overmatched pharmacist. Well, he still looks like a pharmacist-but his mildness of affect has brought forth mighty victories in recent days, not just on aid to Ukraine, but also on surveillance funding (the FISA court) and various other spending bills, including the national security appropriation (which passed thanks to pressure from my friends in the bipartisan military caucus, For Country). So I was wrong to call him overmatched.

The Secret Force Defending American Principles

The commentary class was collectively shocked when new polling this week showed over 90% of Americans across the political spectrum share core principles. More specifically, the vast majority firmly believe in the importance of fundamental freedoms such as the right to vote, equal protection under the law, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.

DOJ Hounds Elderly Concentration Camp Survivor

Sores covered nearly every inch of Eva Edl's emaciated young body. People gagged when they came near her; bed bugs, fleas and lice were devouring her "festering body."

What Would Lincoln Do?

This brief but informative volume by Allen C. Guelzo offers up

How Catholics Can Save American Education

I was a teacher and then worked in test prep before starting the Classic Learning Test. Before and especially since then, I've reviewed a lot of high school curricula, particularly from Catholic and/or classical high schools, which tend to get some flak for their focus on things like Latin, rhetoric, and philosophy.

The Education Factory

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

Academic Dishonesty at UCLA

A prominent administrator at the university's medical school appears to have plagiarized.

Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom

This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators told Jewish students to go back to Poland. A Jewish woman at Yale was assaulted with a Palestinian flag. And an Orthodox rabbi at Columbia told students to go home for their safety. Demonstrators on these campuses shouted: Say it loud and say it clear, we don't want no Zionists here. In one chant at Columbia, the protesters were

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