Plus: Lessons From 100 Years of American Conservatism
April 23 2022
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden fiddles as hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants invade America. It’s about to get worse, our Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, journalist Matthew Continetti discusses his new book on the history of the conservative movement with host Richard Reinsch. Plus: the nation’s librarians choose a Marxist to lead them; Cal Thomas celebrates the end of the mask mandate for travelers; and Tim Graham questions Barack Obama’s qualifications for protecting the truth. On this date in 1969, Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan gets the death penalty after being convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy the previous year at LA’s Ambassador Hotel. His sentence later is commuted to life in prison.
The March numbers for illegal immigrant border encounters are the highest monthly total in two decades. And this is before a key Trump policy is set to be discontinued.
Matthew Continetti, author of “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism,” discusses what conservatives should know about our own history in the U.S.
“I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect,” tweets Emily Drabinski.
Many will wonder what the reaction will be the next time the federal government tries to adopt one-size-fits-all mandates. Will we again resemble sheep, or will we have learned some lessons?
Two colleges are hit by large legal judgments for defamatory and discriminatory misbehavior as their victims fight back. A third narrowly escapes a similar ruling.
