I have been lunching monthly with Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, so I was particularly delighted to encounter, in this collection of his essays from 1978 to 2023, a description of our first meal together. The conversation, Joe recalled, turned to the cultural “theory” then fashionable in university English departments. “‘Of course I loathe
“History is bunk,” according to Henry Ford. But there is an irony to that quotation—the motor industries patriarch and presidential candidate did not say it. No, when asked about his views on foreign affairs in 1916 the isolationist plutocrat grumbled: What do we care about what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don’t
CNN’s Dana Bash sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz on Thursday, in the first interview Harris has done since she began her run for the presidency over a month ago. Bash questioned Harris on her emotions when Biden called to inform her he was no longer running for
Joseph Goffman, a senior Biden-Harris administration official who crafted some of the EPA’s most high-profile climate initiatives targeting the manufacturing and automobile sectors, repeatedly violated financial conflict-of-interest rules, his agency’s top watchdog said in a scathing report published this week. Goffman was found to have owned tens of thousands of dollars in companies directly associated
Democratic megadonors know Vice President Kamala Harris’s policies are not yet set and are looking to shape her economic plan, the New York Times reported Thursday. “[Harris] focuses on her values and is not an ideologue about any particular program. From what I’ve been told, everything is on the table. Nothing’s been decided yet,” billionaire
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez bills herself as a moderate Democrat, but the Washington State congresswoman has embraced a far-left anti-police group that has helped send hundreds of thousands of dollars into her reelection campaign. Fuse Washington advocates for various radical reforms, including defunding the police, giving unemployment benefits to illegal immigrants, and supporting a guaranteed
Roughly 1.5 million illegal immigrants were deported by the Trump administration (Mario Tama/Getty Images) The Democratic National Committee endorsed a plan that would offer amnesty to illegal aliens who were deported under former president Donald Trump and invite them back to the United States. The official Democratic Party platform supports the passage of the U.S. Citizenship