Restoring order to America’s cities isn’t a complicated proposition. All it requires is resources and determination and a firm rejection of the longstanding progressive fallacy that an overwhelming police presence is “provocative” and “escalatory” and must be avoided.
Publication: National Review
First, Restore Order
Protests are a normal and healthy part of democracy. Looting and arson are not. What is particularly vexing here is that the looting and arson are taking place while the gears of justice are turning — the police officers in question were dismissed and the principal malefactor charged with third-degree murder.
The Return of the Tea Party
Rich Lowry: Being told what to do by epidemiologists and officials wielding “science” as their authority has been enough to bring Tea Party–era liberty back in vogue.
There’s No Fix for Trump’s Bad Tweets
What needs changing is the behavior of the president, who lacks the power to control his own urges.
It’s OK to Acknowledge Good Covid-19 News
Progressives and many journalists have developed a near-theological commitment to the lockdowns, such that any information that undermines them is considered unwelcome, even threatening. This accounts for the widespread sense that no one should say things have gotten better . . . or people are going to die.
Biden’s Most Ridiculous Veep Prospect
Rich Lowry: Stacey Abrams’s foremost political achievement is making her Georgia gubernatorial loss into a cause célèbre among Democrats.
Our Never-Mind Media
The media shrug at their massive bungling of major stories.
The Coronavirus Lockdown Has Not Made the Air Cleaner
Why are so many activists saying so anyway?
Museum’s Money Machinations
Some museums want to raid endowments. Let’s reduce spending, stop the panic, and open our museum doors.
Mail-In Ballots Are a Recipe for Confusion, Coercion and Fraud
This could be a disaster waiting to happen. Los Angeles County (population 10 million) has a registration rate of 112 percent of its adult citizen population. More than one out of every five L.A. County registrations probably belongs to a voter who has moved, or who is deceased or otherwise ineligible.
Liberals Rewrite History to Justify Their #MeToo Hypocrisy
It’s absurd to suggest that Christine Blasey Ford is more credible than Tara Reade.
Whichever Models You Use, the Coronavirus Is Going to Kill a Lot of People
The outlook is not promising no matter which way you view it.
Lockdown Extremism Is a Vice
We’ve flattened the curve. Now let states and municipalities decide when to loosen up.
Sweden Bucked Conventional Wisdom and Other Countries Are Following Too
No lockdown, no shuttered businesses or elementary schools, no stay-at-home. And no disaster, either.
Biden’s Disgraceful Hypocrisy on Sexual Misconduct
If presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden were forced to live by the standards he wants to set for college students accused of sexual misconduct, he would already have been presumed guilty, have been denied a genuine opportunity to refute the charges leveled against him by Tara Reade, and had his life ruined.
NPR’s Spotty Report on the Wuhan Labs
A lot of the arguments in the NPR segment amount to insisting the staff at these labs are just too well-trained to have an accident like this. Perhaps they are. But recent months have demonstrated that a lot of institutions in China don’t want to report mistakes and bad news up the chain to their bosses.
Church on a Football Field?
It’s time to think creatively about how to safely open up civil society as well as the economy.
Jon Karl vs Jim Acosta
One of them is a first-rate reporter.
Coronavirus Protestors Are Not Heroes of Civil Disobedience
We all deserve protection from the coronavirus, which is now our nation’s second-leading cause of death. To get it, we must cooperate and make sacrifices.
How the Media Completely Blew the Trump Ventilator Story
The administration handled the potential shortage deftly.
We Are Approaching Covid-19 Gut-Check Time
Timelines grow shorter. The virus and the draconian reaction to it are wearing down a quarantined America.
Coronavirus Authoritarianism Is Getting Out of Hand
There has been lots of pounding of keyboards over the power grabs of authoritarians in Central and Eastern Europe. Rightly so. Yet right here, politicians act as if a health crisis gives them license to lord over the most private activities of America people in ways that are wholly inconsistent with the spirit and letter of the Constitution.
In Some Places, Easter Wasn’t Celebrated, It Was Being Fined
Some local officials came after religious organizations with unseemly zeal.
China Shouldn’t Make Our Drugs
This is the country that threatened to cut off our supply of medicines and plunge the U.S. into “the mighty sea of coronavirus.”