Christopher Chantrill

As the 119th Congress met for the first time last week, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had this to say: For far too long in this country the cost of living has gone up, but the size of the middle class has come down. Housing costs are too…

It’s the end of the year -- a remarkable year -- and all the experts and philosophizers are trying to understand what is going on. Their takes range from the religious to the ideological to the sociological to the scientific.The question:…

Why are so many college girls identifying as anything but women? Why was everyone embarrassed by Donald Trump’s mean tweets? Why did the actors in the Harry Potter movies all shun author JK Rowling when she came out against men in the…

When the jury declared Daniel Penny not guilty of the reckless homicide of Jordan Neely, the activists from Black Lives Matter were outraged and staged a mostly peaceful protest. Obviously, the Jordan Neely death has been made political on…

What are we to think about Tucker Carlson’s two trips to Moscow? On Visit One he interviewed President Vladimir Putin. On Visit Two he interviewed Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. All the best people condemned the first visit even though it…

Over at Quillette our friend Heather Mac Donald is having fun with academic David W. Blight of Yale and his piece in the New York Times: Academia must grapple with its blind spots, he argues, in order to understand why blue-collar workers…

At this moment, when we can hope that the era of our U.S. educated class has been consigned to the dustbin of history, it’s time to get nostalgic. Remember the WWII Vera Lynn song? When the lefty hate is gone, all over the worldAnd the…

We Americans have three political tendencies. First, there is “struggle.” Just before the election Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said: If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over. Interesting how, in Bernie’s mind,…

As you liberals shelter nervously in your mental health spaces I have a suggestion to help pass the time: Learn from the Enemy. The Nazis, to be specific. They will tell you where you went wrong, dear liberals.First there is Nazi jurist…

Last week the world-renowned political scholar Joseph Biden reminded us of the danger to democracy down the ages from political garbage. Said he, after years of careful research and deep philosophical reflection: The only garbage I see…