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Opinion

Michael Barone

Columns

Who said this? "If you don't have any borders, you don't have a nation." The speaker went on, "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain't that hard to do. Biden didn't do it." It was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in characteristic candor. If, as ...

Mona Charen

Columns

"Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" — Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical "My Fair Lady," and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews' much-discussed recent essay in Compact. She ...

Letter to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Listening Editor: Many years ago, I had a falling-out with a church friend over something in an organization to which we belonged. All summer I had been listening to others in the organization who were reinforcing my position, so I was very certain that my opinion was the right one. On a ...

Holding space for good

Columns

Standing in the restored longleaf pine forest of the Nokuse Preserve in northwest Florida, I learned that it borders Eglin Air Force Base. At first glance it felt insignificant, but I soon understood that their close proximity was strategic and collaborative. In the middle of a government ...

Tim Graham

Columns

Last month, Kamala Harris made the rounds of supportive liberal networks to promote her campaign book "107 Days." The title implied it was impossible for her to beat that allegedly despised dictator Donald Trump with so little time. No one expected much of the interviewers, starting with ...

Judge Andrew Napolitano

Columns

In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that anti-Kirk ...