Cal Thomas: Predictable commencement addresses

Columns & Analysis

Published
June 8, 2022

Cal Thomas: Predictable commencement addresses

Time was when many commencement speeches at major universities were about America and its values and what graduates could expect in the future. In recent years, they have become a political capstone on the progressive ideas imposed upon them in their classes and textbooks.
Published
June 7, 2022

Froma Harrop: Sometimes you need a really big screen

The super attendance numbers for "Top Gun: Maverick" has theater owners flying at Mach 10.
Published
June 5, 2022

Cal Thomas: The missing element in the debate about guns

Attempts to ban certain guns will not solve the problem. Recalling and teaching ancient truths will help. That will require a different kind of action than what we have experienced in recent years.
Published
June 5, 2022

Rich Lowry: Is Donald Trump boring now?

The man who shocked and outraged his way through four transfixing years as president of the United States has become a known commodity, indeed predictable and even monotonous.
Published
June 5, 2022

Austin Bay: Communist China’s global plan emerges

Communist China's violations of Taiwanese airspace and sea space are a physical indication Beijing targets Taiwan as the world's next Ukraine.

Published
June 5, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Real ‘ conservatives are about 30 years too late

They stood by and watched as the values they claimed to venerate were smeared in sludge and the name they used to brand themselves was snatched away like money by a playground bully. What it used to mean, folks, it means no more. The fringe became the mainstream. The game played the player. The tail wagged the dog.
Published
June 4, 2022

Rich Lowry: The blowhard-in-chief

If the country thought that it was getting a buttoned-up, by-the-books communicator after four wildly undisciplined years of Donald Trump, it knew nothing about Joseph R. Biden's long career as Washington's standout long-winded, seat-of-the-pants, poorly informed, and misleading talker.
Published
June 2, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: So much for the good guy with a gun

At this writing, the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive counts 17 mass shootings — 74 wounded, 13 killed — just since Uvalde. In America, trauma is now routine and tragedy everyday, and so they will remain until voters — the ultimate arbiters in what is still, albeit barely, a democracy — finally demand better.
Published
June 1, 2022

Cal Thomas: Texas shooting: A failure of several levels

Each time one of these evil acts occurs, we hear from politicians that we can't go on like this. OK, then tell us how to stop it. Laws alone have not succeeded. Again, examining prospective purchasers more closely might help, along with waiting periods and more rigorous background checks.
Published
May 30, 2022

An award-winning WWII movie is newly resonant this Memorial Day

It is the film's willingness to address the characters' struggles in a relatable way that keeps "Best Years" modern. Cartoonist and war correspondent Bill Mauldin may have put it best in a letter he wrote to Goldwyn praising the film as "the first honest-to-God sincere thing I've seen about the war and its aftermath."

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