Weekend Beacon 3/16/25
L: Sen. Joe McCarthy R: Convicted Soviet agent Alger Hiss (Library of Congress) Last week, while Trump hosted Ireland’s prime minister at the White House, the parish of St. John the Beloved,…
L: Sen. Joe McCarthy R: Convicted Soviet agent Alger Hiss (Library of Congress) Last week, while Trump hosted Ireland’s prime minister at the White House, the parish of St. John the Beloved,…
The Red Scare—the era from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s during which fears of domestic communism became one of the major issues in American political life—has generated innumerable books and…
Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton, now chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has authored a slender book that punches so much above its modest weight as to make a reader…
Dems in disarray: It’s been true since Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in November, but alas, the party united in opposition to… Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Infuriated Democratic senators,…
Bidding for beachfront property in Gaza is on hold, at least until Russia stops blocking Donald Trump’s ceasefire proposal, but Israel remains at the center of America’s culture wars. The…
Ranjani Srinivasan signed letter accusing Israel of ‘settler colonial violence’ two months after Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack L: Columbia doctoral student Ranjani Srinivasan (nyu.edu) R: Anti-Israel protesters, Columbia (Alex…
Daniel Davis has accused Israel of pursuing ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Gazans and blamed Oct. 7 on Jewish state (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Daniel Davis, the onetime pick to serve as deputy…
L: Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) R: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) Under Joe Biden, the Iranian regime raked in billions from its “shadow fleet” of tankers ferrying illicit…
Climate freaks pave rainforest, vandalize electric cars. The White House plot to hide Biden’s decline, exposed. The Democratic Party’s “deep bench,” analyzed. Harris makes demands, attempts to explain AI. It’s…
Indivisible co-executive director Ezra Levin at an anti-Elon Musk protest (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn) Indivisible, the left-wing group behind red-district town hall protests targeting Elon Musk’s DOGE, is providing…