The Amazing, Horrifying Age of Exaggeration
Hyperbole was more fun in Mencken’s age. Today it’s become ugly and fanatical, a weapon in a holy war.
Joe Biden, Pre-Conciliar Catholic?
John F. Kennedy, it is typically said, made Catholics “acceptable” as players at the highest levels of American politics. And, yes, his intelligence, wit, and grace confounded the image of U.S. Catholics as something less than the A-team, socially and culturally. But the price of acceptability was high.
Justice Barrett Would Extend Scalia’s Legacy
Amy Coney Barrett’s record, both as a judge and in her earlier career as a distinguished law professor at Notre Dame, shows both her profound commitment to Justice Scalia’s principles of textualism and originalism and her stellar ability to implement them.
Truman’s Terrible Choice, 75 Years Ago
President Truman authorized the use of the atomic bombs thinking, rightly, that doing so would save American and Japanese lives by shocking Japan into surrender. Given the available options, it was the correct choice.
