Opinion

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I am finally moving my clothes back into my closet.

The back of my closet was the epicenter of the giant water leak of 2025, where the sprinkler pipe broke and flooded our condo. The leak was directly behind my sizable collection of dresses, and so all of those dresses — along with every other piece of clothing I own — have been stashed in odd places around the house.

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris

Socialism sells well, like the joy of sex. To beat it, we must focus public attention on the reciprocal — on the fear of pregnancy.

Free bus rides would mean a deterioration of service, longer and longer waits and dirty, filthy buses.

No rent hikes will cause tenants to have no heat, no repairs and, ultimately, no place to live.

Universal child care will deteriorate into babies sitting with no educational component.

GUEST COLUMN, Steven Wilson, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research

Trump’s new prohibitions could prove as harmful as the misguided campaigns they were meant to arrest

President Trump’s sweeping dictate to end what he terms “unlawful DEI practices” is meeting fierce resistance. The National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and the ACLU all filed suit in opposition.

And last month, three federal judges — two appointed by Trump — ruled against the administration. One noted that the “government cannot proclaim entire categories of classroom content discriminatory to side-step the bounds of its statutory authority.”

GUEST COLUMN, J. Basil Dannebohm

In most cults, having an independent opinion is discouraged and even punished. Group leaders often suppress critical thinking and skepticism, viewing them as a threat to the movement’s unity and control. Members who express doubts or disagree are often viewed as “traitors” and a threat. Finding themselves forbidden from drifting off script, they are forced to parrot talking points handed down to them by the cult lieutenants.

Bertrand Rusell once observed, “As soon as we abandon our own reason and are content to rely upon authority there is no end to our troubles.”