According to a recent study, young people are less able to read books from cover to cover than ever before. Rest assured, the Weekend Beacon stands athwart history yelling Stop, please sign your children up for this newsletter. Speaking of standing athwart history, James Piereson reviews the highly anticipated biography Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus. […]

In the aftermath of the Liverpool parade crash, comedian Andrew Lawrence tweeted words to the effect that, were he to find himself in Liverpool, he too would be willing to drive through crowds of people to get out of there. The online outrage was instant and loud. Yet, now a week and a bit on, […]

US authorities foil a chilling and dastardly plot in America’s heartland. The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan put out a bit of a cryptic press release on June 3. The headline read: “Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspiracy and Smuggling a Dangerous Biological Pathogen into the U.S. for their Work at a […]

From government officials – past and present alike – to international activists, it seems few people are acting their age. A big bulging bill – some say it’s beautiful, but not everyone thinks so – kicked off a contentious weekend for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The former head slicer and dicer of DOGE […]

When William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008, the United States lost its most articulate champion of conservative ideas. Over the course of a 60-year career in the public eye, Buckley did just about everything: published books and articles, lectured, wrote a newspaper column, edited a national magazine, advised politicians, and even ran for office. […]