Back when country music tunes were actually distinguishable one from another, my wife and I frequented raucous dances at VFW clubs and Elk clubs and the like in rural Maryland. Would a traveling Black man have been welcome in such venues in many sections of America?

Some politicians and government officials can’t let a crisis go to waste. In the matter of the tornadoes that devastated parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, restraint was called for, but went unanswered.

John Roberts, chief justice of the United States, has one of the toughest jobs in a tough town, Washington. He may believe he can save the court from itself. I’m not so sure.

The U.S. Army and Navy know enemy robot swarms are a threat. They are developing high-powered “microwave cannons” that can burn drone “brains” and protect armored units and Navy ships from swarm attack.

The pushback is a heartening sign of the limits of elite cultural power, and of the lack of interest of most Latinos in being pawns in the ever more strained and obscure progressive politics of perpetual victimology.