Jeffrey Folks

In the 1995 film version of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, the noble Col. Brandon refers to Mr. Willoughby as “the worst of libertines,” a word not much used today but common in Austen’s time. A libertine was an…

For a host of reasons, it became convenient for progressives to suggest that large numbers were fleeing Florida in search of a better life.When Florida governor Ron DeSantis was a GOP presidential frontrunner, liberal Democrats dug up every…

It’s the home stretch of the presidential campaign, and, as expected, the Democrats are pulling out all their familiar, nasty, tried-and-true attack points. They’ve been using the same approach for 100 years, and sometimes it…

We are a rich country — rich enough that women like Cathy, the very young pregnant woman I saw last week working at Burger King, shouldn’t have to choose between keeping her child and holding on to essentials. With a booming…

In late winter of 1966, my high school friend John, who was just 18, drove his car into a bridge abutment and died instantly.Something had gone terribly wrong. John had gone off to a good Midwestern college, been elected…

If you visit Kamala Harris’s campaign website and click on “issues,” you will find a tepid list of conventional progressive topics — corporate greed, health care, education, child care, and climate change among them. What you…

Prices continue to rise, and it is putting pressure on most Americans. Kamala Harris won’t admit that, having unleashed inflation through $7 trillion in annual spending, she herself is a major source of this…

I spent an hour this evening cutting and pulling bushes. Normally, this would be an easy task, but in the late August heat and humidity, it was an unpleasant chore. By the time I had finished, I was covered with sweat,…

Debby was the first hurricane to strike the continental U.S. in 2024. After passing through the Caribbean, T.S. Debby tracked offshore along the Gulf Coast of Florida before becoming a Category One hurricane and making landfall…

A society can be judged by how well it protects those who are vulnerable. Not by the number who have been made dependent on government via welfare — that is not protection — but by the protection individuals and traditional…