Cal Thomas
Columns by Cal Thomas
Coldplay couple and the case for restoring moral standards
The critical response by the Astronomer company to the Byron-Cabot incident is partially an acknowledgment that standards still exist. Published July 23, 2025
Colbert’s fall shows what happens when entertainers take sides and forget to entertain
Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" has been canceled by CBS, effective in May. Critics of the decision are claiming politics is the reason. Published July 21, 2025
Netanyahu exposes media bias in fiery Fox News interview
During his visit to Washington last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed for an hour by Fox News and radio host Mark Levin. Published July 16, 2025
Can Harvard rediscover truth by embracing a center for conservative scholarship?
It took threats to cut off its federal funding after antisemitic, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations for Harvard University to consider again pursuing what used to be the foundation of its motto. Published July 14, 2025
Politics in the pulpit? Why IRS rule change could backfire on churches
The IRS announced on Monday it is overturning a restraint on churches and other houses of worship that was supposed to keep them from endorsing candidates for political office. Published July 9, 2025
Selling the ‘big, beautiful bill’ to voters
It's one thing to pass a major piece of legislation and have it signed by the president; it's quite another to get the public to swallow it as something that benefits most of the country. Published July 7, 2025
What does it mean to be an American? Let the countdown to 250 years spark a national conversation
Let's have a conversation during these next 365 days about what it means to be an American and what we will do to renew America for the next generation while preserving it for the current ones. Published July 2, 2025
What happened to the media’s coverage of the Ukraine war?
Last weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a rare story on the Ukraine war, though it was buried on page A10 after a front-page teaser. Published June 30, 2025
Make America clean again
Over many years, I have traveled to various countries, and I have always longed to return home and hear these words from an immigration officer: "Welcome back to the United States." Published June 25, 2025
Iran has been at war with the U.S. since 1979, and Trump has finally responded
In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump did the right thing, for the right reason, and at the right time. Published June 23, 2025
Handicapping the L.A. protests
It would be amusing if it weren't so serious. Last weekend's expressions of supposed free speech were almost universally called demonstrations by the media and "mostly peaceful" by some. Published June 18, 2025
Israel strikes back: Peace through strength is the only option
After Israel took out at least two of Iran's top scientists behind the development of nuclear weapons and promised to kill more, my high school fight song came to mind. Published June 16, 2025
What did losing the Vietnam War mean?
Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Published June 11, 2025
From Vietnamese street orphans to successful Americans: The untold rescue story
The story sounds like a "Mission: Impossible" script. Published June 9, 2025
Why Democrats need to say, ‘We were wrong,’ to fix their credibility crisis
Six months after its disastrous election performance, the Democratic Party is "still searching for the path forward," The New York Times reports. Published June 4, 2025
Trump’s ‘beautiful bill’ delivers ugly fiscal reality for America’s $36 trillion debt crisis
After many years living in and covering Washington, I have learned one overriding principle: If you don't trust politicians, you will never be disappointed. Published June 2, 2025
The death of proper English: America lost in lazy language
The beginning of summer offers a columnist the opportunity to address subjects he might avoid the rest of the year because of his focus on domestic and foreign issues. Published May 28, 2025
Universities are teaching a new generation to hate Jews, and blood is on their hands
The alleged killer of two Israeli Embassy employees, the terrorist murders of Jews in Israel by Hamas and the vilification of Jews by professors at certain universities are instructing a new generation to hate. Published May 27, 2025
What was really going on in the Biden White House?
Those who lived through the Watergate scandal in the'70s with its associated names and labels, including President Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein, the plumbers, non-denial denials, press secretary Ron Ziegler, Haldeman and Erlichman, the tapes, Judge John Sirica, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, John Dean and the cover-up, will recall the blazing headlines. Published May 21, 2025
The Wilson-Biden cover-ups
The massive cover-up of President Biden's mental and physical decline, which is now being revealed by certain media types who were part of it, reminds me of a similar event more than a century ago. Published May 19, 2025
