Jeffrey Folks

We do not live in an entirely peaceful or civilized world. Conservatives realize that fact and wish to prepare for the worst by strengthening our military, shoring up the value of our currency, and ensuring economic…

The task that RFK Jr. has set for himself is huge: nothing less, it appears, than a revolution in the health of the American people. If successful, or even partially successful, Kennedy’s efforts would spare tens of millions of…

Eighty years ago this spring, my father was an officer in the Third Army when it entered Dachau concentration camp, not knowing exactly what it would find. What my father found was horror, including dozens of boxcars, most of…

When will America realize that climate change is a hoax?By “climate change,” I mean the idea of an overwhelmingly anthropogenic and sudden rise in the Earth’s temperature to catastrophic levels. I have not seen convincing proof…

Winter has come early, and in many places, the month of December has brought with it record or near record cold. As I write, the eastern U.S. lies in the grip of extreme cold, with possible record lows tonight in Tennessee, South…

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…