Demonizing the Deplorables is a historically proven strategy for disaster

The delusions are easy to laugh at, but they have serious consequences for U.S. policy.

Also: A clear-eyed book about teaching in the public school system, and more.

Carrying water for the Saudis and Emiratis has nothing to do with demonstrating support for the people of Yemen.

See the Top 4 U.S. contractors’ profits explode, all while their weapons have been used against civilian targets for years.

The only thing standing between us and madmen like John Bolton is his common sense.

The president thinks he’s getting tough on the mullahs when he’s really just causing ordinary people to suffer.

As Europe’s Green parties surge, the Right can help make sure conservation doesn’t become a government boondoggle.

Bolton is still jabbering about a nuclear weapons program that doesn’t exist in 2019.

The Trump administration wants to stretch the 2001 AUMF beyond all recognition and apply it to a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and still has nothing to do with Al Qaeda’s activities.

Capturing the soul of the famously personal and inscrutable band that so defined 1990s America.

If truth is to prevail, then we must learn to self-examine relentlessly

Two left-of-center academics come out in support of persecuted Christian athlete

He can’t have peace with Iran until the United States walks back its maximalist position.

How can one tell when a church has departed cleanly from Christianity?

That is exactly what Bolton and other Iran hawks have been seeking, and once again the president gave them exactly what they wanted when they wanted it.

A president who routinely inflicts collective punishment on tens of millions of people in one country after another is not terribly worried about the lives of others.

Also: Joe Frazer gets his due, and more.

Roger Scruton on how Czech anti-communist dissidents fought alienation and despair

Beijing’s tyranny over its people is fast becoming more terrifying than anything in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The administration has nothing but disdain for diplomacy and contempt for Iran, and they really hate the idea of diplomacy with Iran.

Desire untethered from anything but individual will is a universal solvent of social bonds

In a move sure to flummox the warmongers and national security elite, Trump proposes a “Make Iran Great Again” plan.

It is utterly bizarre to hear people who believe Trump is unfit to lead seem disappointed that he isn’t taking us to war.

The French president would like you to think Donald Trump is the world’s only protectionist. He should check a mirror.

The president and his officials are determined to continue lying about Iran and its nuclear program to justify their destructive policy.

Young Italian Catholic families launch a Benedict Option project

Trump’s imposition of sanctions earlier this year was a disastrous mistake.

If anyone can be blamed for conceiving of and perpetuating the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, it is the Saudi and Emirati governments that the U.S. has supported for years.

The National Review scribe’s new book is about Ireland, but he is a product of his homeland through and through.

From the lost Vedic civilization to Saint Mark, Here’s what our writers are reading this week.