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Don’t turn Epstein files into MeToo

In recent years, public trust in American institutions has collapsed, and understandably so, given the overt politicization of supposedly objective fields such as medicine and education -- you know, The Science. Meanwhile, this distrust has also spread throughout our justice system. In an ideal world, a truly just justice system is built upon a platform of absolute objectivity and absolute equality. But, since we clearly live in a world that is far from ideal, justice is routinely doled out by a Lady Justice whose blindfold has been replaced with blinkers, adjusted as needed by ...

Why are anti-ICE activists building borders?

Anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades. They're demanding ID from drivers. In short, they're setting up their own borders — against America's laws and law enforcement. It's not the first time "protesters" have done this. Activists inspired by Black Lives Matter seized control over a portion of Seattle six years ago and christened their conquest the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ) or "Capitol Hill Occupation Protest" (CHOP). A black teenager, Antonio Mays Jr., was shot and killed by what the Seattle-area ABC affiliate KOMO News calls ...

Champion skier makes terrible choice

It isn't easy being Eileen Gu. The champion freestyle skier said the other day, after she had to settle for a silver medal in an event at the Olympics, that "sometimes it feels like I'm carrying the weight of two countries on my shoulders." Gu would be carrying the weight of only one country if she had chosen to represent her native USA at the games, rather than a hostile totalitarian state. Gu skis for China, a choice that is a little like deciding to represent a fascist country during the 1930s. China is bent on undermining U.S. power and supplanting Western values. It runs a ...

Blowing big moment is human

(Betsy McCaughey - column) The collapse of young Ilia Malinin, the U.S. figure skater known as the Quad God, on Olympic ice last Friday is the moment in this year's games most watchers will remember. Few of us can imagine performing the feats of these athletes, but we can all relate to blowing a high-stakes moment. It's part of the human experience. Why does it happen? Scientists studying three rhesus lab monkeys (named Earl, Nelson and Ford) have the beginning of an answer. And the research offers comfort to Malinin and the rest of us, indicating we shouldn't be too harsh on ...

Is constitutional ice age approaching

Last fall during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge. We chatted and I asked him what he was doing. He told me he worked for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE. I asked what ICE has to do with the U.N., and he told me that soon ICE will be everywhere. When I asked if ICE has become a paramilitary force, answerable to the White House, he just smiled, as if to say, "Don't quote me." When I asked him why he was carrying two handguns and ...

It’s up to us to farm our own lives

There's a 36-year-old song that talks about the value of hard work. "I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail," the chorus goes, "Learn how to use my hands, not just my head. I think myself into jail. Now, I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose. Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose." I've been thinking a lot about farming lately, which is weird because the last time I tried to do any gardening, I pulled a random muscle in my back and limped for a week. But work, real work, goes back in my family for generations. My ...