Category: The Washington Free Beacon
How Trump’s Asia Pivot Can Pack a Punch
As Donald Trump boards Air Force One for the first East Asia trip of his second term, he is confronting the main challenge facing the United States and the one that will define his legacy: the ongoing competition with China. There are reasonable grounds for optimism in the White House, but fending off the communist
Can Baseball Get Better Without Getting Boring?
Major League Baseball has been in crisis for nearly as long as it has existed. Just 16 years after the American and National Leagues merged, a game-fixing scandal threw the national pastime’s integrity into question and (perhaps incorrectly) cost one of the game’s greats both the rest of his career and a plaque in Cooperstown.
The Ringmaster of Rock
In 1982, a bootleg record titled Elvis’ Greatest Shit!! caused a stir by savaging the crass commercialization and cultural deification of Presley in the wake of his death five years before. It was released on the Dog Vomit label, emblazoned with RCA mascot Nipper retching into a gramophone, a dig at the venerable label that
C.P. Cavafy: Cosmopolitan Poet
Early in their biography of the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933), Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys announce that they have written a “thematic” as opposed to a “linear” biography. The facts of their subject’s life, they hold, are rather unremarkable and straightforward. “We have chosen, therefore, to start and finish his life story with his
The Constitutional Commentary We Need
There’s a familiar lament among constitutionalists—one heard at law schools, in courtrooms, and across think tank hallways—that most Americans know next to nothing about the nation’s founding document. Ask a random college graduate about the Emoluments Clause or the Compact Clause and you’ll get a blank stare. Yet even among lawyers and judges, constitutional knowledge
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