David Lewis

New York City Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has received a flood of criticism for his July 3 address, in which he used the semiquincentennial as an excuse to misleadingly emphasize America’s historical shortcomings rather than its achievements. But as to... See more

Was Menzies a Nazi appeaser? The history is more complicated The latest argument about Menzies political leanings is misleading, but almost everyone involved in this debate is partly right and partly wrong. Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy was right t... See more

RealClearPolicy Week of May 18, 2026 Archives RealClearPolicy AM Update Monday, May 18 SCOTUS Rightly Banned Race-Based Gerrymandering David Lewis Schaefer Civitas The Rules of the 2026 Election Are Still in Flux Carrie Levine Salon AOC's Poor Understandi... See more

David Brooks calls himself an American Whig, but there are good reasons a Whig restoration is impossible. Hope for American Education Most news about America’s education system, from K-12 through college, continues to be bad. At the K-12 level, the nation... See more

“Cometh the hour, cometh the man”, wrote Victorian philosopher Thomas Carlyle. The optimist in me has occasionally clutched at this idea: that great crises would summon a Moses to lead us from the wilderness, but history suggests otherwise. The figures mo... See more