Columns ‹ Opinion
Michael Medved
Michael Medved is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author. His daily three hour show reaches 200 stations across the country and an audience of 4.7 million placing him, for ten years in a row, on the Talkers Magazine list of the top ten political talks shows in the United States. Michael’s columns on politics and media appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast and USA Today, where he is a member of the Board of Contributors.
Writer's Website
Hillary’s Vulnerability Goes Far Beyond Emails
Republicans feel perplexed and indignant over the decision by FBI Director James Comey to recommend against prosecuting Hillary Clinton for the careless, likely illegal handling of her e-mails.
In responding to this troubling but predictable development, conservatives should avoid the temptation of focusing our ire on Director Comey instead of Hillary. In spite...
Read More
Hillary’s Vulnerability: Far Beyond Emails
Republicans feel perplexed and indignant over the decision by FBI Director James Comey to recommend against prosecuting Hillary Clinton for the careless, likely illegal handling of her e-mails.
In responding to this troubling but predictable development, conservatives should avoid the temptation of focusing our ire on Director Comey instead of Hillary. In spite...
Read More
A Representative Republic Beats Pure Democracy
The UK’s Brexit vote should remind Americans of the advantages of a representative republic over a pure democracy. The close vote to leave the European Union has already damaged the life savings and pension plans of millions who didn’t vote for it—while a switch of just 2 percent of the electorate would have changed the fateful outcome.
In a...
Read More
A Representative Republic Beats Pure Democracy
The UK’s Brexit vote should remind Americans of the advantages of a representative republic over a pure democracy. The close vote to leave the European Union has already damaged the life savings and pension plans of millions who didn’t vote for it—while a switch of just 2 percent of the electorate would have changed the fateful outcome.
In a...
Read More
Cinematic Enchantment, For a Change
Occasionally, Hollywood releases diverting fare for kids but only rarely do family films qualify as dazzling works of art. But Steven Spielberg’s The BFG—“The Big Friendly Giant”—is a gorgeous, touching enchantment, destined to become a classic.
Based on Roald Dahl’s 1982 best-seller, the movie follows an orphan girl into Giant Country where a...
Read More
Brexit: Deferred Benefits, Immediate Damage
Within days after the close “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union, there’s evidence of second thoughts among portions of the British public, with demonstrations to protest the decision, petitions to reconsider it, and efforts by leaders of Scotland and Northern Ireland to overturn it, or else to separate from the UK.
The good things Brexit advocates...
Read More
Early Veep Choice Could Mainstream Trump’s Campaign
If Donald Trump wants to revive his faltering campaign he should make a bold move and offer the Vice Presidential nomination to Paul Ryan – even with the understanding that the House Speaker probably won’t accept it. The gesture of honoring Ryan in this way would make it clear that he wants to cooperate with his party’s most important leaders from now on...
Read More
Obama’s False Narrative on Terror Threat
The embarrassing attempt to censor transcripts of the Orlando killer’s calls with the police resemble one of the most shameful prior moments of the Obama administration: the effort to blame the 2012 Benghazi disaster on a video about Mohammed rather than recognizing it as an act of Islamo-Nazi terrorism.
In both cases, acknowledging horrific crimes as acts of...
Read More
Focus Attacks on the Most Vulnerable Democrat
Hillary Clinton is one of the most unpopular politicians in America – with a negative rating of 55% according to a recent poll. If Republicans hope to win the presidency, Donald Trump should focus all criticism on this vulnerable opponent, rather than attacking more popular figures like President Bill Clinton and President Obama.
Though Obama won re-election...
Read More
Transgender Awareness in Kindergarten?
Public school officials in Washington State recently revealed an appalling new program to teach transgender awareness beginning in kindergarten as part of a new curriculum that will leave children even more confused and troubled as they approach puberty.
Kindergartners are in Washington are now supposed learn that “there are many ways to express gender.”...
Read More
Can We Count on Trump to Pick the Right Judges?
Despite Donald Trump’s obvious shortcomings as a candidate, his enthusiastic supporters argue that his commitment to appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court should persuade all Republicans to unite behind him.
His racially-tinged assault on federal judge Gonazlo Curiel, however, and his repeated promises to use the justice department and the...
Read More
Student Loans Amount to a Disastrous Investment
Student loan debt has quadrupled since 2000 and stands at a staggering $1.2 trillion today—a situation comparable to the housing crisis that wrecked the economy nearly 10 years ago. Already, 7 million student-borrowers are in default—with millions more likely to follow suit. Most of these troubled loans involve young people who started college but never...
Read More
Election is Crucial, Beyond Presidential Choice
Many conservatives feel discouraged at the choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for president of the United States but that doesn’t mean we should lose interest in the crucial election this November. Important Senate races in ten different states will impact our future security and prosperity, no matter who is elected to the White House.
If...
Read More
“Body Art” and Conservative Values
New York Times Magazine recently praised the current craze for “artistic” self-mutilation, declaring that “the danger, the fear, the foolishness and the pain of getting a tattoo contribute to the thrill.” A new Harris survey suggests that more than one-in-four Americans have now pursued that “thrill,” with 47% of adults under 35 marking themselves...
Read More
What “Terrible Force” was Unleashed?
In his much-praised Hiroshima speech, President Obama appropriately avoided a formal apology for America’s decision to drop the atom bomb. Yet his soaring rhetoric strongly implied moral equivalency between the United States and Japan in taking responsibility for the suffering of the war. In fact, no such equivalency exists: the Japanese decision to attack...
Read More
An Empty Museum for an Empty “Nationality”
Leaders of the Palestinian Authority recently dedicated the Palestinian Museum: a $24 million building meant as “a space to celebrate and redefine Palestinian art, history and culture.” The only problem: the sprawling museum opened with no exhibitions at all—highlighting the troubled nature of Palestinian identity.
What is “Palestinian art, history and...
Read More