MICHAEL J. KNOWLES

Ronald Reagan was very successful.

From the beginning, religious faith animated the American quest to explore the heavens.

For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.

Civil society begins with the family.

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

The way to achieve a higher birthrate, which is a noble goal and I am glad conservatives are serious about addressing it, is to radically change the culture.

Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.

The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don't elect the president. We are not a democracy; we are a democratic republic. We have a representation system of government.

In 'Jesus Is King,' Kanye is free.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

In more tangible terms, the pumpkin spice latte shares many of the qualities that endear conservative politicians to their supporters and arouse disgust in their opponents. It's blunt, common, and unapologetically American.

Criticism does not constitute violence.

Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose, as should conservatives.

As pro-life advocates continue to expose the scientific and ethical reality of abortion, we must also console the millions of Americans who carry the heavy burden of an enormous sin.

Air travel dehydrates people.

Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman.

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don't wind up in sanctuary states.

All people of goodwill object to racial hatred. But no one cares that Billy Crystal darkened his skin to portray Sammy Davis Jr.

A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.

Wealthy parents have long relied on a properly timed donation to improve their children's chances at admission to college.

Liberation from meaning leaves us skeptical of truth itself, comfortable only to acknowledge 'your truth' and 'my truth,' confident only in the reality of subjective feeling rather than objective fact.

President Trump's greatest political liabilities revolve around questions of personality and character.

While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they're going out of style, the United States under President Trump has led the world in reducing carbon emissions.

My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.