David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner and author of six books, including “First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History With the Gun” and “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

A Leaner Federal Workforce Is a Win for Taxpayers

Commentary One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump’s second term has been the purging ...

Viewpoints October 5, 2026
We Spend a Lot More on Welfare Than Bombs

Commentary The other day, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told Qatari state media that the United States ...

Viewpoints September 9, 2026
The ‘Gaza Genocide’ Is a Hoax

Commentary In May 2025, Tom Fletcher, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, went on BBC Radio and told ...

Viewpoints September 3, 2026
Luddites Are Winning the Data Center Debate

Commentary When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers via executive ...

Viewpoints July 20, 2026
The United States Has Always Been at War

Commentary One of the most popular complaints of the younger Americans is that the United States has been ...

Viewpoints July 10, 2026
The SPLC’s Real Scam

Commentary It turns out that the most generous funder of white supremacist groups in the United States was ...

Opinion June 12, 2026
Hey, Socialists, We’ve Already Figured Out the Supermarket

Commentary There are at least 76,000 supermarkets in the United States. Most of us probably have a dozen ...

Opinion April 21, 2026
Argentina Is Booming—Capitalism Remains Undefeated

Commentary In 2023, more than 100 leading economists from around the world, including progressive darling Thomas Piketty, signed ...

Opinion April 13, 2026
Taxpayers Are Subsidizing College Extremism

Commentary Mohamed Abdou is a pro-Hamas “anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as ...

Viewpoints May 3, 2024
The World Is Paying a Deadly Price for Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy

Commentary If a belligerent state launched 185 explosive drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles from three ...

Viewpoints April 19, 2024
NBC’s Double Standard Is Obvious

Commentary Ronna McDaniel, formerly chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), was recently hired and subsequently fired by ...

Viewpoints March 29, 2024
Yes, Israel Is Now a Partisan Issue

Commentary “To make Israel a partisan issue only hurts Israel and the US-Israeli relationship,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck ...

Viewpoints March 22, 2024
Biden–Hur Interview Raises Serious Questions

Commentary One of the big takeaways from the newly released transcript of President Joe Biden’s two-day interview with ...

Viewpoints March 18, 2024
The Supreme Court Is the Last Properly Functioning Institution in America

Commentary In a 9–0 decision, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that states cannot use Section 3 of the ...

Viewpoints March 8, 2024
If This Is ‘Christian Nationalism,’ Sign Me Up!

Commentary The other day, Politico writer Heidi Przybyla appeared on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” to talk ...

Viewpoints March 1, 2024
While Biden Pushes Ukraine to Fight, He Demands Israel Surrender

Commentary President Joe Biden has not only promised to veto any stand-alone Israeli aid, but he’s reportedly circulating ...

Viewpoints February 23, 2024
Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About Moscow

Commentary At the World Government Summit, Tucker Carlson told a gathering of world leaders that Moscow was “so ...

Viewpoints February 16, 2024
Why Biden Is Threatening to Veto Aid to Israel

Commentary President Joe Biden promised to veto any stand-alone aid bill for Israel, and House Minority Leader Hakeem ...

Viewpoints February 9, 2024
You Can’t Defend ‘Democracy’ and the Administrative State

Commentary The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who ...

Viewpoints January 26, 2024
The Drive-by Smears of Clarence Thomas Never End

Commentary Most Clarence Thomas hit pieces can’t stand up to perfunctory scrutiny. But the newest doesn’t even make ...

Viewpoints December 23, 2023
No, the US Shouldn’t Push Israel to Create a Palestinian State

Commentary “Ultimately,” contends Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), the next Israeli government “is going to have to put us ...

Viewpoints December 1, 2023
The Media Aren’t Quite Hawkish Enough for the Biden White House

Commentary When will The New York Times finally stop pulling punches and go after Donald Trump? That’s the ...

Viewpoints November 17, 2023
The Populist Right Is Leading the GOP Into Irrelevancy

Commentary Since the GOP’s populist turn in 2016, the party has steadily lost ground in the suburbs and ...

Viewpoints November 10, 2023
Polls Showing Support for Israel Hide Some Ugly Truths

Commentary According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, only the police and military are more respected than Israel. It’s ...

Viewpoints October 27, 2023
Hate Trump All You Like, the Gag Order Is Still Wrong

Commentary This week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan overseeing United States v. Donald Trump issued a gag ...

Viewpoints October 20, 2023
Authoritarian Thugs Continue Their Persecution of Jack Phillips

Commentary I’ve been writing about Denver-area baker Jack Phillips for over a decade now. It’s clear to me ...

Viewpoints October 13, 2023
Matt Gaetz Didn’t Oust McCarthy. He Just Helped Democrats Do It.

Commentary Kevin McCarthy has become the first House speaker to ever be successfully ousted in a motion to ...

Viewpoints October 6, 2023