Quotes from Miranda Devine

Newsflash: Americans don't want to watch athletes who hate America representing America.

Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime's work to dust.

Democrats want more censorship, not less, as long as it silences conservative voices.

Catholics everywhere squirm at the ostentatious piety of Pelosi and her fellow apostate Joe Biden. If they must sin, can they at least keep religion out of it?

Rigorous skepticism is a prerequisite for good science, just as it is for good journalism.

Joe Biden is America's biggest troll.

Books of yesterday are often criticised as offering an unrealistic Pollyanna view of the world. But the grim 'realities' we are forcing on today's children seem to have been written with no higher purpose in mind than teaching cynicism and distrust.

Pence has been the indispensable, unimpeachable rock of Trump's presidency, the yin to his yang.

The more Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets away with treating New York badly, the crueler he is.

When old people in power scold children and young people for 'selfishness' if they don't get triple-vaxxed, or if they let their mask slip below their nose occasionally, or try to have some fun in the sun, it's obvious who actually is being selfish.

America is back' is a divisive, foolish slogan. It only baffles America's allies and emboldens our adversaries.

They say the older you get, the less you care about what people think. The physical reason for elderly insouciance may be frontal lobe degeneration resulting in a loss of inhibition and social judgment.

Like 'Ken Park's' director, Larry Clark, Germaine Greer deliberately provokes controversy with the cheapest trick.

Books on offer to preteen boys, for example, are all too often nihilistic, without a sense that the world is ordered and everything has a purpose and that those who strive hard and behave in noble, brave or self-sacrificing ways will triumph over adversity.

Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned.

Ron DeSantis is right: Republicans must aggressively fight back in the culture wars. They didn't start the wars, but they have an obligation not to shy away from confrontation on social issues.

There's no social justice in destroying a police force.

Reading faces is a crucial part of children's socialization and helps them learn empathy.

There is nothing compassionate about abandoning the mentally ill to the streets and making the rest of us live in their bedlam.

It's never too late to try authenticity.

For some people, every word out of Trump's mouth is 'hate speech' that they have tried to stamp out for four years. Twitter's suppression of the president's tweets was the culmination of those efforts.

There is nothing compassionate about Biden's lax border policy, not for the poor souls who have been lured into the arms of criminal human-smugglers, and not for the American people, who already are suffering the consequences of what can only be described as a secret government-sponsored invasion.

Escapees from Communist China and the Soviet Bloc have inoculated America from the evils of Marxism in the past, but it seems every generation needs a new lesson.

Genteel Republicans like Mitt Romney complain about Donald Trump's unpresidential behavior but how else does he combat the dirty left? Only a barbarian could defy the liberal establishment as he has done.