DAVID HARSANYI

New York, New York

David Harsanyi is a Contributor for the Sun.

Mr. Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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Latest Articles

Russian troops march during the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in Moscow in 2019. — AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file

Tucker Carlson’s Admiration for Putin’s Russia Is Misguided

There probably isn’t a single quantifiable economic measure in which Russia bests the United States. None of this is even to mention that Russia is an extraordinarily corrupt place.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Feb 15, 2024|

Columnists

Herring, the subject of federal regulations under review by the Supreme Court, are unloaded from a fishing boat at Rockland, Maine, July 8, 2015. — AP/Robert F. Bukaty, file

‘Chevron Deference,’ Under Review at the Supreme Court, Empowered the Illiberal Administrative State

A dispute over fishing regulations is basically a modern reenactment of ‘taxation without representation.’

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Jan 27, 2024|

Opinion

Governor DeSantis at LaBelle Winery on January 17, 2024 at Rockingham County, New Hampshire. — Brandon Bell/Getty Images

It’s Too Early To Rule Out a Political Future for Ron DeSantis, Despite His Poor Showing in Iowa

The Florida governor bet that President Trump would either step aside because of his mounting legal troubles or that Republicans were ready to move on to a more stable, competent, and traditional candidate.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Jan 19, 2024|

Columnists

Justice Clarence Thomas at Nathan Deal Judicial Center at Atlanta, February 11, 2020. — AP/John Amis, file

The Left’s Smears of Justice Clarence Thomas Are Long on Innuendo, Short on Substance

Painting completely innocuous and standard behavior as weird and scurrilous is a hallmark of the constant effort to smear the originalist justice.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Dec 23, 2023|

Opinion

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets with the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, center, and his deputy Saleh al Arouri, at Tehran, June 21, 2023. — Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP

No Genuine Ally Would Push Israel To Create an Iranian Puppet State on Its Borders

While the situation today is appalling, creating an Iran-backed Palestinian state on the borders of a nation the size of New Jersey would make things significantly worse.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Dec 1, 2023|

Opinion

The Biden White House Demands Obedience From Its Friends in the Press Corps

The president is upset that the Times published a piece offering a quite banal, if inconvenient, observation about his 2024 rival and the issue of abortion.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Nov 17, 2023|

Opinion

President Trump, left, and Judge Tanya Chutkan. — Via Wikimedia Commons

Judge Tanya Chutkan Is Stifling Trump’s Free Speech in January 6 Case on Rickety Grounds

Who is Judge Chutkan to dictate the contours of a presidential candidate’s political speech?

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Oct 19, 2023|

Opinion

Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop at Lakewood, Colorado, on June 4, 2018. — AP/David Zalubowski, file

Colorado Cake Baker Jack Phillips Is Again at the Center of a Court Battle Over Religious Liberty

The new case, involving a request to make a cake to celebrate a gender transition, is built on ludicrous contortions of logic and law.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Oct 14, 2023|

Opinion

Representatives Kevin McCarthy, left, and Matt Gaetz at the Capitol January 6, 2023. — Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

How the Democrats — Aided and Abetted by Republicans With a Vendetta — Ousted Speaker McCarthy

It is a political coup for the Democrats.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Oct 6, 2023|

Opinion

Hunter Biden at Fort McNair, June 25, 2023, at Washington. — AP/Andrew Harnik

‘No Evidence’ of President Biden Being Involved in Hunter’s Business Dealings Keeps Piling Up

The Democrats’ latest defense is that it’s no big deal that Chicom wire payoffs happen to have the president’s home address listed on them.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Sep 28, 2023|

Opinion

Family members embrace freed American Emad Shargi as he arrives at Davison Army Airfield, September 19, 2023 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. — Jonathan Ernst/pool via AP

How Much Will It Cost To Ransom the Next American Taken Hostage by Iran, After Biden Sets Going Rate of $1.3 Billion per Detainee ?

Having a moral imperative to retrieve American citizens from these fascist regimes is admirable. Incentivizing more kidnappings is not.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Sep 22, 2023|

Opinion

President Biden and Hunter Biden at a basketball game at Washington, January 30, 2010. — AP/Nick Wass, file

There’s More Than Enough Evidence for a Biden Impeachment Inquiry

Sticking the words ‘without evidence’ into a story is meant to insinuate that the impetus for an investigation is itself meritless.

By DAVID HARSANYI

|Sep 15, 2023|

Opinion