Archive: The Wall Street Journal

What America Can Learn From the Tokyo Crash The Japanese are ‘less individualist and more consensual.’ That helps when lives are on the line.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Thoughts arising from the incident at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and the extraordinary exit: On Tuesday Japan Airlines Flight 516, carrying 367 passengers, many of them revelers returning from the New Year’s holiday, collided on landing with a Japanese coast-guard plane that was carrying supplies for earthquake survivors of the Noto Peninsula. Five of the six […]

A Look Back at ’23 and Me I found myself preoccupied with the importance of adult examples and with the dangers of AI.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Twenty-three skidoo. Goodbye, honey. A new year begins. I’ve been reading the past 12 months’ work with the aim of doing a what-I-got-right-and-wrong column, but find I didn’t make many predictions. One, last month, was that Taylor Swift would be Time’s person of the year, which she was; another, in May, was that Donald Trump […]

What Universities Have Done to Themselves They ‘have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas.’

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Fareed Zakaria opened his CNN show last weekend with a commentary that seemed to me a signal moment in the DEI/woke/identity-politics wars. I don’t know how Mr. Zakaria would characterize his political views, but there was a quality of something building within him that finally came out. It was an earnest commentary that perhaps took […]

The Rape of the Israeli Women Hamas’s crimes on Oct. 7 were deliberate and systematic. Why has the left been disbelieving, silent or equivocal?

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At first I didn’t understand. Among Hamas’s crimes of 10/7: little children and babies murdered, some burned to death; children forced to watch parents chased, beaten and shot. Old couples murdered in their homes; families who’d taken refuge in safe rooms burned out and killed. Hamas attempted to behead a kibbutz worker, and killed old […]

AI Is the Y2K Crisis, Only This Time It’s Real Computers didn’t cause the expected havoc as we rang 2000 in. They’ve been doing so slowly ever since.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Recently while sharing a meal an acquaintance said something arresting. We were speaking, as happy pessimists do, about where the 21st century went wrong. We’re almost a quarter-century into it, it’s already taken on a certain general shape and character, and I’m not sure I see much good in it beyond advances in medicine and […]

We Should All Give Thanks for Taylor Swift She brings joy, jobs and happy feet everywhere she goes. She’s the best thing happening in America.

-- The Wall Street Journal:

Right about now Time magazine would be choosing its Person of the Year, a designation I’ve followed from childhood because their choices tend to vary from sound to interesting. Also I almost always know who they’ll choose and enjoy finding out if I’m right. Here I tell you who it will be and must be […]

So You Think You Want a Political Fighter? Congress’s comportment crisis is getting worse, with brawls breaking out all over Capitol Hill.

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The crisis of comportment on Capitol Hill is getting worse. Two months ago it was an argument over whether senators should be allowed to wear children’s play clothes on the floor, because one senator felt this was emotionally necessary for him. His emotions were overridden and the old dress code restored. Now it is how […]

Kamala Harris Is Biden’s No. 2 Problem Meanwhile, Republicans need to winnow the field to Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.

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Where are we, one year from the 2024 presidential election? The incumbent is famously, historically unpopular and has been for some time, so it’s not a blip or event-related. He should help his party’s prospects by stepping aside and letting Democrats fight it out. He won’t, we all sense this. Republican hopefuls continue their battle, […]