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In a 1995 interview, the Iron Lady gave a lesson on the perils of popularity.

I told them that while they may know something, the chances are that people older than them know more

In 2020, I watched the first Trump-Biden debate like most people. Through my fingers. Trump was not just too aggressive. He wouldn’t shut up. “Let him talk” I kept shouting at the screen. But Trump wouldn’t.

Why should we have any respect for a man who wanted to start a massive war in the Middle East throughout his entire life?

Over a hundred years ago, J.M. Barrie told the graduating class of St. Andrews never to lose heart—even in the face of death.

Kate Forbes was treated as though she was not just some kind of anomaly, but some sort of monster

Protesters aren’t really scared of COVID — they’re hiding shame of their prejudice

Queen Elizabeth I had no children herself, but on the banks of the Thames, staring down the Spanish Armada in 1588, she gave birth to a nation.

When you remove the baggage with the male-to-female power dynamic, other dynamics come into view

Biden seems to be bowing to pressure from some of his own base. As someone joked a few months back, Biden does indeed want to focus on a two-state solution, but the two states are Minnesota and Michigan.

Adapted from Douglas Murray‘s speech Monday as The Post columnist accepted the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award: I’ve never seen as much of the best and the worst of humankind as I have in the past six months in Israel and Gaza.

In 1988, the conservative speaker used humor to contrast America and the Soviet Union—making a point that wasn’t just funny but true.