F.H. Buckley
The Archive
What you miss when teaching online
In the enforced solitude of stay-at-home orders to fight the coronavirus, we sense the absence of things we’ve taken for granted — a colleague’s handshake, a smile from a stranger....
Let’s try listening to Bernie Sanders’ voters — they have legitimate gripes
A new poll show Bernie Sanders with a sizable lead over all his rivals for the Democratic nomination, and moderate liberals are beginning to wonder whether their party has a...
How to avoid America's coming secession crisis
The craziness of our politics makes one wonder what’s round the bend. After the “resistance,” the pussy hats, the nonstop crises and the permanent impeachment, what might be the next...
Boris Johnson, Donald Trump's secret to success: Take best from right, left
In last week’s UK general election, Boris Johnson’s Tories won working-class constituencies held by Labour for a century. They pulled this off by standing for British culture and sovereignty against...
Trump's nastiness is making him look weak
Donald Trump wants people to think he’s a winner. So why does he act like a loser? Winners convey a sense of effortless superiority. They don’t have to work at...
Hong Kong’s protesters deserve Trump’s support
What’s happening in Hong Kong right now reminds us that Americans have never been ideologues. In foreign policy, we are happy to live with a messiness in which idealism mingles...
Gridlock is giving us a government run by temps
Suppose I told you there was a $600 million business that hasn’t had a CEO for 16 months, and efforts to appoint one have been stymied in Washington. Crazy, but...
It’s time for a federal civil rights intervention in Portland
The savage beating of journalist Andy Ngo in Portland by far-left antifa rioters last Saturday shocked everyone. Well, conservatives anyway, plus a few honorable liberals. As the police stood by...
How to stop the ‘woke’ social media censors
There is nothing like a social media war to inspire nuttiness from all sides, and the latest is the furor over YouTube’s decision to “demonetize” Steve Crowder. Which means the...
What Democrats have forgotten about citizenship
Who should be represented in our elections? That’s the question at the heart of Democratic opposition to the Trump administration’s decision to add a question about citizenship to the Census,...
President Trump should thank the attorney general he forced out
We’ve now seen the Mueller report, and there will be a lot of finger-pointing on both sides. But what’s clear is how the last two years have degraded American politics...
‘Reparations’ is a recipe for strife, not justice
Reparations for slavery used to be a fringe idea, but it’s gaining traction among mainstream Democrats. Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee has sponsored a bill to study the question, and she...
Trump's fight for campus justice is only beginning
American colleges used to pride themselves on their commitment to free speech and free inquiry. That’s the only way learning takes place, we thought, and you’d have to go back...
Look which sides liberals choose in the real-life 'Handmaid's Tale'
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is backing a new surrogacy law, and though it could be worse, it’s still bad. It’s called the Child-Parent Security Act, and it would decriminalize and enforce...
Beto O’Rourke is being a hypocrite about the border wall
Donald Trump has a lot of things going for him, a sense of humor, a willingness to say whatever is on his mind, but his best asset is his ability...
Lessons from Venezuela for the Left — and Trump
In the freak show that constitutes today’s politics, it’s well to recall that there are real issues out there, like our government’s wise decision to recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó...
It's time for Trump to give up on the wall
President Trump has held out as long as he can on the wall. But now it’s time for him to pack it in. He never really made the sale, except...
Trump may have gone too far by abandoning the Kurds
The Trump election was in many ways a rediscovery of nationalism and a rebuke to liberal transnationalism — the idea, popular among elites in the US and Europe, that nationhood...
Don't trust the government to make Big Tech behave
The social-media wars are heating up. Congress has grilled Google’s CEO, and the British Parliament wants to hear from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Across the political spectrum, there are calls for...
Why 'No Hate Here' signs are actually pretty hateful
My walks with my dog take me to a quiet off-street, with middle-class houses made expensive because they’re inside the Beltway. Their owners are mostly youngish attorneys who work as...