Rich Lowry: The Florida slavery smear

Columns & Analysis

Published
August 1, 2023

Rich Lowry: The Florida slavery smear

It's not an endorsement of slavery to point out that slaves looked for every crack in the system to try to improve themselves and gain some autonomy — rather, it's an endorsement of the initiative and resilience of an oppressed people operating in the worst of circumstances.
Published
July 31, 2023

Big Food should be ESG’s next target

We have started eating substances that "can't really even be called food," says van Tulleken — "emulsifiers, low-calorie sweeteners, stabilizing gums, humectants, flavor compounds, dyes, color stabilizers, carbonating agents, firming agents and bulking — and anti-bulking — agents" just for starters.
Published
July 30, 2023

Rich Lowry: Dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the right call

It's understandable that "father of the atom bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer, would have qualms about the unfathomable horror inflicted on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but launching these attacks was clearly the right decision.
Published
July 30, 2023

Austin Bay: Confronting China’s rising strength on the seas

Is a war with China likely? We are in what is now sometimes called the "Davidson window of vulnerability" versus China. In 2021 former Indo-Pacific Combatant Commander Adm. Phil Davidson told the Senate Armed Services Committee China's leaders were "accelerating their ambitions to supplant the U.S." and might attack within the next six years — 2027.
Published
July 30, 2023

Froma Harrop: News flash: Companies don’t want to lose money

After decades of making good money, what's causing insurers to report less-than-zero profits after paying claims? It's the parade of cataclysmic weather events made worse by rising temperatures. There have always been hurricanes. But warming sea surface temperatures are already spawning more very destructive Category 4 and 5 hurricanes.

Published
July 30, 2023

Alex Lear: Learics: The joys of being ‘yold’

I'm glad to have the perspective of youth and older age. A happy medium. Middle of the road. A gradually graying guy wearing that old COOT shirt.
Published
July 30, 2023

Cal Thomas: Irony at the border

Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott is doing the job the Biden administration refuses to do, and that is to enforce laws against unlawful border crossings that have been enacted by Republican and Democratic administrations.
Published
July 29, 2023

Clarence Page: A ‘woke’ military? Don’t forget the messy race relations that got us here

As I see today’s generation of congressional Republicans wage their seemingly endless war against the “woke,” I cannot help but wonder: Do these folks have any idea of how turbulent the issue of military diversity used to be?
Published
July 29, 2023

Rich Lowry: Mutually assured re-nomination

Trump and his enemies may despise one other, but they are working toward the same immediate outcome, i.e., a high-stakes, hate-filled, Third World-ish Trump-Biden rematch with the possibility of jail for one of the contenders if he loses and intense prosecutorial scrutiny for the other if he comes up short.
Published
July 29, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Culture wars revisit Nashville

Country music is at another crossroad. It can point its art and its fans forward or backward.

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