A friend and I were talking about retirement the other day. He was seeking some advice as he contemplates what that passage of life might look like for he and his family down the road. I gladly shared with him my thoughts and recommendations, but that conversation triggered another question in ...

When I was in college, I had a limited number of elective classes that I was given to choose from for my English degree, and availability of those classes was always an issue. Like many others, I sometimes ended up taking classes that weren’t on my “preferred" list. At CMU before the online ...

Charlie Kirk was a one-man answer to campus illiberalism. He rose to prominence at a time when university administrators and progressive students were working in league to make campuses no-go zones for conservatives. They effectively banned them from faculties. They didn't invite them on ...

This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte light rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad ...

The West Point Association of Graduates announced on June 11 that movie actor Tom Hanks would receive this year's Sylvanus Thayer Award at a ceremony and parade this month hosted by the U.S. Military Academy. The award goes "to an outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and ...

Everyone in Washington loves tax credits and deductions. Politicians tout them as a painless way to help families pay for green energy, buy homes or lower the cost of health care. They're also politically irresistible: No one wants to be accused of "raising taxes" by trimming perks that voters ...