https://townhall.com/columnists/feedTownhall is the leading source for conservative news, political cartoons, breaking stories, election analysis and commentary on politics and the media culture. An information hub for conservatives, republicans, libertarians, and liberty-loving Americans.en-usMon, 03 Aug 2026 18:29:27 -0400<![CDATA[Every so often somebody in public life says something so honest it accidentally torches the argument they were trying to make. It doesn't happen because they slipped. It happens because, in the moment, they forgot they were supposed to be managing perceptions rather than describing reality. This week's entry comes from Oxford, England, home to one of the oldest and most storied debating societies on the planet, where the president of the Oxford Union said the quiet part out loud with a clarity her critics could never have manufactured for her.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin McCullough]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2026/08/03/she-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud-n2680582<![CDATA[With all the bravado, complaining, and politicking over the movie, I decided to watch for myself.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Arthur Schaper]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2026/08/03/nolans-the-odyssey-brings-out-the-epic-in-the-poem-n2680549<![CDATA[Joe Biden, the worst President in American history, left office over 18 months ago, but the nightmare of his administration continues to haunt our country. &nbsp;]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jeff Crouere]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2026/08/03/the-biden-nightmare-still-haunts-america-n2680548<![CDATA[This week is the 25th anniversary of one of the most horrific terror attacks in Israel during what is referred to as the Second Intifada. During the period from late 2000 through the first half of 2005, more than 1,000 Israelis were killed and several thousand wounded as a result of countless Palestinian Arab suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings, and more. While hardly a week went by without some such terror attack, the August 9, 2001 bombing of the Sbarro pizza restaurant in central Jerusalem remains one of the most vivid and vulgar, still today.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jonathan Feldstein]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jonathanfeldstein/2026/08/03/arnold-roths-25-year-fight-for-his-daughters-murder-and-accountability-for-a-hamas-terrorist-n2680546<![CDATA[Why don’t people learn from history? Well, there might be a multiplicity of reasons, but ultimately it boils down to one thing: people don’t learn from history because they don’t want to. They don’t like what it teaches; they think the consequences of disobeying the eternal moral and natural laws and principles God set in motion to govern this universe can somehow be avoided or don’t apply to them, so they continue to do the same stupid, self-destructive things that humans have been doing for thousands of years. And then they are shocked and dismayed when they suffer the same results that previous generations and nations have suffered. Humanity, frankly, is really not a very smart species.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Lewis]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/08/03/spain-and-the-ignoring-of-history-n2680540<![CDATA[The events in Spain shed a great light on the nonsense of our generation.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/08/03/when-all-of-the-modern-psychoses-are-in-one-place-n2680538<![CDATA[Every candidate for office is ultimately asking voters to trust his judgment when it matters most. So it is entirely fair to examine David Jolly’s judgment the last time the stakes were life and death.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Sharpsteen]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/matt-sharpsteen/2026/08/03/david-jolly-failed-floridas-most-important-judgment-test-n2680525<![CDATA[What is happening in America? Socialist candidates are winning primaries.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Terry Paulson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2026/08/03/donald-trump-is-americas-critical-counterrevolutionary-n2680521<![CDATA[On July 29, 2026, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and said the same sentence, in one form or another, 111 times: on the advice of counsel, he would not answer. Three hours. One committee room. One man who ran the nation's infectious disease policy for parts of five decades, and who once told television cameras he'd be delighted to sit for any hearing Congress cared to hold.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/08/03/the-sun-god-of-science-pleads-the-fifth-n2680517<![CDATA[The current trend of Democratic Socialists of America goobers going on Fox and proudly coming out for all the weird and stupid things they support is akin to the phenomenon of a few years ago where you had furries publicly and proudly proclaiming their bizarre identity, except the people pretending to be cartoon foxes and wombats were less embarrassing. As dumb and creepy as it is to dress up as an anime marsupial and admit that their furry fetish tops “sincere people” and “long walks on the beach” on their list of turn-ons, at least the furry strange-os didn’t murder 100 million people over the last century. Of course, it’s probably only because their costumes don’t provide opposable thumbs to hold the guns.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kurt Schlichter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/08/03/democrats-want-to-close-the-prisons-except-not-for-people-like-you-n2680504<![CDATA[It is quite amusing to watch the internal squabbling in the Democratic Party because of the emergence of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). There are those who are trying to disavow these Marxists, but in fact, they are all Marxists. I mean, seriously, Rahm Emanuel, the fella who said, "never let a good crisis go to waste," was right there with the OG Marxist, Barack Hussein Obama. Let's not forget Obama's statement to Joe the Plumber about "spreading the wealth around." That statement certainly aligns with Marx's statement on wealth redistribution: "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need." And then there is James Carville, who recently stated on a leftist podcast that Democrats should just lie during the campaign, then do what they want when they win. Sounds a lot like the Islamist principle of taqiyya.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Allen West]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2026/08/03/dont-be-fooled-all-the-democrats-are-marxists-n2680492<![CDATA[I have a question, and I promise I'm asking it in good faith, with a smile on my face and my hands raised in the universal gesture of "I genuinely just want to understand." Here it is: why does defining the word "woman" appear to be the single hardest pop quiz in professional sports right now?]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:53:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin McCullough]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2026/08/02/why-cant-wnba-coaches-define-what-a-woman-is-n2680534<![CDATA[I was born in Michigan, I was raised in Michigan, I went to school and college in Michigan, and still consider myself a Michigander in most ways. But I don’t really recognize Michigan anymore, at least not as the Michigan of most of my life. The Democrat primary election Tuesday will show me if the Michigan I remember still exists, or if it is dead and buried under a pile of progressive rubble and terrorist sympathies.]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Derek Hunter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/08/02/will-the-dsas-politics-of-envy-work-on-michigan-democrats-n2680523<![CDATA[“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self- restraint.”—Alexis de Tocqueville]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Lewis]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/08/02/de-tocqueville-nails-it-again-improper-education-leads-to-moral-debauchery-n2680515<![CDATA[Government has exactly one job it can't hand off to the private sector, and that's keeping citizens alive long enough to complain about everything else it does badly. I spent years working private security and pulling shifts as a licensed EMT in Los Angeles before I ever ran a hedge fund or testified as an expert witness in federal court, so I learned early that “public safety” isn't a slogan on a campaign mailer. It's a stopwatch, a phone call, and a decision some prosecutor makes at 9 AM about whether the man arrested for the fourth time this year goes home for lunch.]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/08/02/the-three-numbers-your-mayor-doesnt-want-you-asking-about-n2680477<![CDATA[Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are available here. The first 56 volumes are compiled in the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two, featuring volumes 57-113, was published in December 2022.]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Myra Kahn Adams]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/myrakahnadams/2026/08/02/a-quick-bible-study-vol-331-what-st-paul-says-about-death-n2680461<![CDATA[Things become kosher because there is money to be made.]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/08/02/kosher-capitalism-n2680442<![CDATA[Many Americans assume our current debate over Sharia law is a recent phenomenon, born from the waves of mass migration over the past several decades.]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:27:00 -0400<![CDATA[Sen. Michael Holmstrom]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/sen-michael-holmstrom/2026/08/01/why-does-minnesota-need-a-sharia-free-caucus-n2680505<![CDATA[At the end of May, the New York State Assembly introduced Assembly Bill A11509. The proposal would permanently prohibit anyone born after December 31, 2007, from purchasing tobacco or nicotine products for the rest of their lives.]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:45:00 -0400<![CDATA[Cláudia Nunes]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/cl-udia-nunes/2026/08/01/new-york-plunges-new-depths-n2680501<![CDATA[This spring, the Judiciary Committee of the State Senate of California, CA—my home state—convened as usual to discuss a number of bills, including one surrounding one of the state’s favorite topics: transgenderism. Session after session, California accumulates more and more “protections” and statutes intended to protect transgender ideology and the institutions promoting it, rather than protecting people like me: a detransitioner who was groomed at the age of 13 into believing I was born in the wrong body.]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Luke Healy]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/luke-healy/2026/08/01/mr-skinner-and-mr-wiener-n2680495