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It is difficult enough to write about the most high-profile political assassination in this country since the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy killings of 1968. It is considerably more difficult to do so when the victim was a personal friend. The pain is profound. Charlie Kirk and I had gotten close, and we had spoken less than 24 ...Read more

Israel's precise strike at Hamas headquarters in the petrostate sheikdom of Qatar happened about 23 months too late.

Every one of the reported targets has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for terrorist activities. Each one of them, by any moral or legal understanding, was engaged in war crimes.

Not only did they orchestrate and manage ...Read more

"You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children ... I'm trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry," Charlie Kirk said last week. Now he is dead, assassinated on a college campus.

I started my radio ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a clear view of the "Free Palestine" movement. Speaking at Duke University on Tuesday, he said "'Free Palestine' is, to me, just -- you're free to say you don't like Jews. Just say you don't like Jews," he said, according to the Duke school newspaper, The Chronicle.

And: "By saying 'Free Palestine,' ...Read more

The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah looked like the opposite of the Washington Post motto. It's "Democracy Dies in Sunlight." Thousands of people gathered joyfully to hear freedom of speech and saw it end with a bullet to the neck.

The dominant media reaction was horror, as it should be. When the Biden-...Read more

What a difference half a decade makes. This summer's prevailing ethos, zeitgeist, vibe -- call it any fancy name you want -- was sharply different from the summer, just five years ago, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.

Such sudden changes in the moral atmosphere seem to occur every so often. The year 1776, the 250th anniversary of which we ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Sept. 8 headline in The New York Times said it all: "A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right."

The Gray Lady leaped over the warm body of victim Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old immigrant from Ukraine, and led with its usual blame-the-right politics.

The story's subhead: "Security footage capturing...Read more

Charlie Kirk was a one-man answer to campus illiberalism.

He rose to prominence at a time when university administrators and progressive students were working in league to make campuses no-go zones for conservatives.

They effectively banned them from faculties. They didn't invite them on campus, or if they did, they were liable to disinvite ...Read more

Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S.

Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they were members of a "narco-terrorist gang" and were delivering illegal drugs to ...Read more

Last week's Senate Finance Committee hearing was supposed to be about oversight, to ask the tough but necessary questions on how a federal agency is moving toward its authorized mandate. Instead, it became a bipartisan spectacle of scorn aimed squarely at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republicans and Democrats alike...Read more

Everyone in Washington loves tax credits and deductions. Politicians tout them as a painless way to help families pay for green energy, buy homes or lower the cost of health care. They're also politically irresistible: No one wants to be accused of "raising taxes" by trimming perks that voters now consider to be entitlements.

But for all ...Read more

I had a different column planned for this week -- on the same topic that's in the title, as it so happens. But not five minutes before I sat down to write it, I heard that conservative commentator and speaker Charlie Kirk had been shot in the neck at a speaking event in Utah.

Before I could get even a few paragraphs completed, it was ...Read more

This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte light rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad in a red hoodie, sits behind Zarutska; then, he ...Read more

S.E. Cupp's column will post tomorrow, Sept. 11.

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An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture.

That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised?

Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ?

James J. Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the ...Read more

Down, direct and perhaps a bit dirty has its place, especially in the complex undertaking German strategic theorist Carl von Clausewitz called "politics by other means."

Politics by other means was Clausewitz's restrained definition of war. When economic enticements go bust and diplomatic "jaw jaw" deadlocks, destructive acts of violence ...Read more

Get ready for more Zohran Mamdani-like candidates -- avowed socialists -- to soar to popularity across New York state and the rest of the U.S.

We the public have ceded control of education to the far left. The result is a curriculum that never mentions the brutal consequences of socialist experiments in Eastern Europe, Latin America and ...Read more

The federal government owns about a third of America. Since we're on a path to bankruptcy, it would be smart to sell some unused property. President Donald Trump's Interior Secretary says it may be worth as much as $200 trillion. Selling just a fraction of it would reduce our enormous debt. Not just that -- since government doesn't manage things...Read more