Jeff Jacoby

The old memento mori left people with this reminder: Life is fleeting, and character matters. When the fake gravestones and giant bones go back to the basement, what will we be left with?

A planned 2026 coin with the president’s face on both sides flouts one of America’s oldest civic taboos.

Destructive delusions keep returning not because they’re true but because they serve powerful purposes.

Liberty without order becomes chaos, while order without liberty becomes tyranny.

Most politicians treat scandal as something to be brazened through. An uncommon few choose a different path.

When Senator Kaine recoiled from the idea of rights endowed by a Creator, he was channeling a temptation as old as politics itself: to make government the supreme source of human freedom.

Bachelorette parties flood small businesses with shameless requests for free merchandise.

When assisted suicide is legalized, safeguards collapse.

Busy arterials — built for the cars, trucks, and buses that transport the overwhelming majority of people moving through the nation’s cities — are no place for cyclists.

MAGA cultists brandish a repressive accusation.