This year, everyone here is bullish on MAGA. That’s your cue to take the other side of the trade.

Trump is now at the zenith of his power. The moment he’s sworn in on January 20, he’s just the plain, old president of the United States.

At home, Yale Law School and DEI committees are out. Abroad, strength and escalation are in.

Lately it seems that mine is a country with a death wish. Can we avoid national suicide?

Trump’s victory is a blow to political lawfare, critical race theory, woke campuses, legacy media, and Hollywood. It’s a win for a new generation of builders like Elon Musk.

Once again, Israel appears to have ignored Washington’s advice. Once again, that decision has paid off.

To make proper sense of the bloody events of the past 12 months in the Middle East, I had to go to Vilnius. That may strike you as bizarre, as Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania and roughly 1,600 miles from Tel Aviv. But Vilnius was once “the Jerusalem of the North”—that’s what Napoleon called it when he passed through in 1812.

There might be something scarier than German power. That’s German weakness in this dangerous moment for Europe—and the free world.

“I will probably be the first British historian in history to say this, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear its inactivity,” writes Niall Ferguson for The Free Press.

Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.