We have once again been confronted with a familiar and troubling pattern in our political life. Events we watched unfold in real time are retold as something else entirely. What we are asked to believe no longer matches what we have seen. Recently, we’ve seen this in the ongoing retelling of January 6. The administration’s brazen attempt at redefining events that took place five years ago has been something to behold. We all watched those events take place that Wednesday. We

In the wake of the NYC election that saw Zohran Mamdani elected mayor, there has been considerable commentary. While some of that commentary has come from those who live in NYC, most of the negative and, at times, vitriolic commentary has come from those outside of NYC. Numerous people have messaged me post-election, with those messages ranging from educated assessments and critiques of Mamdani's policies to outright ignorant bigotry. It's been fascinating. That said, I am

(This article was originally post by The Washington Institute and is being reposted with permission.) In 1954, about a year before the Montgomery bus boycotts, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached a sermon at his church in Montgomery, Alabama on Romans 12:1–2 entitled “Transformed Nonconformist.” In it, he said this: “Our world needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation. Dangerous passions of pride, hatred, selfishn