Pleasant shock: Signs of integrity in the liberal Democrat cultural sphere

Pleasant shock: Signs of integrity in the liberal Democrat cultural sphere

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The screeching polarization of American political and cultural life in recent years is exacting a toll. Debate has been debased. Contempt and hatred for those with opposing views is now the norm. While some on the right have criticized their own side — think of Rick Perry and Jeb […]

Press gets it wrong again on mass shooting

Press gets it wrong again on mass shooting

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen In the aftermath of the mass shootings in Aurora, Colo.; Newtown, Conn.; Tucson, Ariz.; Virginia Tech; the Washington Navy Yard; and sadly, other locales, conventional wisdom held that the epidemic of mass shootings was a problem of gun control. I wrote columns attempting to draw attention to the mental […]

Memo to Dana Milban: Some things are more important than the Democrat Party

Memo to Dana Milban: Some things are more important than the Democrat Party

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen “The conservative minds of the Heritage Foundation have found a way for Republicans to shrink the gender gap: They need to persuade more women to get their MRS degrees.” So wrote the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank about a panel that featured Mollie Hemingway, Karin Agness and yours truly. It […]

Civility and the state of civilization at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Civility and the state of civilization at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The mother of the 16-year-old pro-life demonstrator who suffered a rough confrontation with a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has shown a rare civility — the spirit liberals are forever bemoaning the lack of but rarely demonstrating themselves. The event: A small group of pro-life activists […]

The Price We, and the World, Will Pay for Obama’s Re-election

The Price We, and the World, Will Pay for Obama’s Re-election

BY MONA CHAREN Most Americans who are dissatisfied with President Barack Obama’s leadership are thinking about the poor economy and the misbegotten health care law. That disillusionment is justified — if not tardy. But the foreign policy failures of this administration are likely to be far more consequential, lasting and possibly catastrophic. What we are […]

Has America Lost Its Grit?

Has America Lost Its Grit?

BY MONA CHAREN Amy Chua, the “Tiger Mother” who launched a thousand panic attacks among ambitious but lenient parents, is back with an almost-great book about why some groups achieve spectacular success in America while others languish. Written with her husband Jed Rubenfeld (both are law professors at Yale), “The Triple Package” examines a number […]

Cry Havoc (Racism) and Let Slip the Dogs of War

Cry Havoc (Racism) and Let Slip the Dogs of War

BY MONA CHAREN When seven Democratic senators voted with all of the Republicans to reject Debo Adegbile’s nomination to serve as head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, Harry Reid cried racism. It’s as if Reid was on autopilot, and the aide who usually touches his elbow to correct him wasn’t available. If the […]

Facing Reality on Carbon Dioxide

Facing Reality on Carbon Dioxide

BY MONA CHAREN Though you wouldn’t necessarily know it based on news coverage, the United States in the reign of President Barack Obama is enduring the most prolonged period of slow growth and high unemployment since World War II. The president asserts that he saved us from another Great Depression, which, like his claim that […]

Overreach Prevents Obama From Solving Problems

Overreach Prevents Obama From Solving Problems

BY MONA CHAREN There are many reasons President Barack Obama’s presidency has proven so ineffectual even by its own standards — boosting economic growth, improving health care, preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, enhancing America’s world reputation. One reason is that Obama is the most ideologically rigid president in American history. He believes […]

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