https://pjmedia.com/author/ron-radosh/feedPJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 22 Apr 2026 02:07:49 -0400<![CDATA[By any rational measure, Judge Roy Moore should never have been nominated as a senatorial candidate. His statements over the years have proved that he does not understand the constitutional separation of church and state; he believes his role is “to obey God’s law,” not that of the state or nation in which he presides.]]>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 08:59:08 -0500<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/11/14/gop-prepares-die-alabama-republicans-stick-judge-roy-moore-n185140<![CDATA[The fight against the protectionist and anti-globalist Steve Bannon is one worth having. As of now, Bannon and the Breitbart wing of the GOP appear to be winning, but there is mounting opposition to him within Republican circles.  GOP strategist Rick Wilson writes in  The Daily Beast:]]>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:07:50 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/10/27/will-bannon-gop-establishment-prevail-internal-fight-deepens-n185136<![CDATA[Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is on a roll, growing from 8,000 nationwide members in 2016 to over 25,000 today, which makes it the largest organized socialist group in the United States. Its members play a large role within the Democratic Party, where they work with others from Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to push the party further to the left.]]>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 07:56:59 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/10/18/dsas-drift-democratic-socialism-stalinist-totalitarianism-n185133<![CDATA[]]>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:50:17 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/10/10/vietnam-war-documentary-burns-novick-fail-portray-ho-chi-minh-accurately-n185129<![CDATA[A few days ago, the State Department announced that it was advising Americans to no longer travel to Cuba, and sent half of its staff at the United States Embassy back home. The reason is the strange and dangerous series of sonic attacks on American diplomats working in the Embassy; also, at least one attack was aimed at a diplomat staying at the famous Capri Hotel, once the homestead of the American mob in the &#8217;50s.]]>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 08:02:59 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/10/04/cuba-conundrum-attacking-diplomats-spies-cuba-n185126<![CDATA[In an article focusing on free speech on the campus, The New York Times tells its readers that the UC Berkeley faculty is divided over whether or not the university should allow right-wing speakers to appear on campus. Their most recent concern was motivated by a &#8220;Free Speech Week&#8221; event that was being put together by provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who was invited by a small campus group called Berkeley Patriot. He was going to appear on the campus in February, but his scheduled speech was canceled after protesters prevented it from taking place. The upcoming event was scheduled to take place from September 24-27,  but as Rick Moran reports in these pages, it was announced today that Berkeley Patriot canceled the event. Participants initially mentioned were Steve Bannon and Ann Coulter, but now it has become apparent that neither planned to attend. Listed speaker Charles Murray announced he would not participate in any event Milo had arranged “because he is a despicable asshole.” Murray’s name, moreover, was listed without his knowledge or consent. All of these announced speakers regularly enrage leftist students and send them into conniptions.]]>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:44:39 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/09/23/spirit-free-speech-uc-berkeley-left-opposes-n185121<![CDATA[In his 60 Minutes interview last Sunday with Charlie Rose, Steve Bannon went into full attack mode against the Republican Party establishment. Of course he hates the Democratic one as well, but it’s Republicans who are in his crosshairs.]]>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:53:05 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/09/12/steve-bannon-goes-full-attack-mode-60-minutes-n185118<![CDATA[In our era of identity politics &#8212; largely brought to us by the Left &#8212; white ethnic groups have not received a lot of attention. This is apparently the case with Italian-Americans, who are about to be denied a symbol and historic figure who has been important to them: Christopher Columbus.]]>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:24:43 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/09/06/goodbye-columbus-n185115<![CDATA[While the pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, by President Donald Trump is being applauded by many in his base, it is receiving criticism from conservatives and some notable Republican officials.]]>Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:10:34 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/08/29/donald-trumps-pardon-joe-arpaio-politically-morally-wrong-well-unnecessary-n185111<![CDATA[Two TV programs, covering both the white nationalists/neo-Nazis and their “Unite the Right” rally and the violent left-wing group Antifa, aired last week. The shows focused on what both groups stand for, and how both groups operate. The coverage serves as a good test as to whether the media can objectively cover these extreme groups, and not openly side with the leftist Antifa by portraying it only as &#8220;against hate.&#8221;]]>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:17:34 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/08/21/american-tv-covers-white-nationalists-leftist-antifa-special-reports-fair-n185108<![CDATA[Donald Trump has repeatedly made the argument that international terrorism by jihadists will not be defeated unless we are free to name the enemy responsible: radical Islamist terrorism. But when an act of domestic terrorism by neo-Nazis, the KKK, assembled members of the alt-right, and white supremacists took place, his response was a tepid few lines read at a scripted news conference dedicated to honoring veterans, in which he said there was violence on “many sides.”]]>Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:23:01 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/08/14/trumps-statements-on-charlottesville-reveal-a-deeply-flawed-president-at-his-worst-n185105<![CDATA[When I watched Hugh Hewitt’s August 5 interview with National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster, I was impressed with his ability to articulate the foreign policy goals he said he shares with President Trump &#8212; although some on the far right are disputing that they are indeed the policies Trump promised to pursue.]]>Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:42:03 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/08/07/the-fight-within-the-trump-wh-will-president-trump-stand-with-the-bannonites-or-the-generals-n185102<![CDATA[Update (July 25): Apologies to Brit Hume. Ken Kurson emailed me that what I quoted from Politicer may be a hoax, and that possibly Hume did not make the comments I attributed to him. I checked. First, that site was quoting from this site. I first cited The Daily Caller, which posted this,I found that portions were true. Here is the discussion as it appeared on Fox News, from another website. Watch the video.]]>Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:39:23 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/07/23/britt-humes-strange-and-heartless-prescription-for-health-care-n185099<![CDATA[The time has passed for Republicans and conservatives to drop the charge that Russian meddling in the U.S. electoral system is part of a witch-hunt, instituted by Democrats to challenge the legitimacy of Trump’s Electoral College victory.]]>Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:02:24 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/07/16/finally-conservative-writers-accept-the-truth-about-the-trump-campaigns-folly-n185095<![CDATA[Where you are on the political spectrum may determine your judgment of Donald Trump’s speech in Warsaw. Cathy Young has written a brilliant dissection of this process. I agree with her that on both sides, more nuance in evaluating the impact and meaning of Trump’s Warsaw speech is necessary.]]>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:47:09 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/07/10/on-trumps-warsaw-speech-the-g-20-summit-and-the-direction-of-trumps-foreign-policy-n185091<![CDATA[The Republican Party is in a tough position on health-care legislation and is in danger of confirming what the opposition has called it, “the stupid party.”  For seven years the party railed against Obamacare, promising to abolish it and replace it with an alternative that would be market based, bring down costs, and deliver better coverage for everyone.  Obviously, Republicans should have spent more time working together on developing their own plan and educating the public about its virtues.  Instead, both the House and now the Senate have put up bills that leave moderates like Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski,  the ideological Right like Sen.Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, and libertarian free-marketers like Sen. Rand Paul opposed to it.]]>Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:57:26 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/07/01/the-gops-health-care-debacle-n185089<![CDATA[My wife and I recently returned from a trip to Cuba &#8212; which we wrote about in the new issue of The Weekly Standard &#8212; just in time to hear Donald Trump announce his new Cuba policy in Miami. His speech to the most ardent anti-Castro Cuba-Americans was strong and enthusiastically received. He promised to reverse Obama’s 2014 opening, which had not led to reforms in human rights, to political freedom, or to the lessening of repression.]]>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:27:02 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/06/21/how-the-new-cuba-travel-regulations-hurt-cubans-and-help-the-castro-regime-n185086<![CDATA[]]>Sun, 11 Jun 2017 09:25:02 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/06/11/robert-s-leiken-march-19-1939-june-7-2017-r-i-p-n185083<![CDATA[Each year, the National Security Council performs an annual review of U.S. Cuban policy. Today’s New York Times reports that President Trump is debating whether or not, or just how much, to roll back the opening to Cuba instituted by Barack Obama in 2014, which culminated with the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2016.]]>Fri, 09 Jun 2017 10:05:55 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/06/09/is-trump-about-to-reverse-obamas-cuba-policy-n185078<![CDATA[On the foreign front, Trump’s admirers are trying to make the case that his whirlwind trip to the Middle East, the Vatican, and the G-7 conference were triumphs in the remaking of American foreign policy. They argue that it was a clear example of how his “America First” policy protects the national interest, forces European countries to take on more responsibility for their own defense, and moves the United States away from engaging in the dangerous nation-building of past administrations.]]>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:22:52 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2017/06/01/the-fallout-from-trumps-european-tour-n185075