http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368353/idol-equality-victor-davis-hanson From “The Black Book of the American Left” (2013), by David Horowitz: noted n the WSJ To be a conservative is first to understand that there is no solution to the dilemmas of the human condition. Second, it is
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Some followers have a little trouble reconciling my strong objections to the economic policies of this administration with the success of the stock market in 2013. In fact I have felt the stock market would do well for the last
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Donald Boudreaux wrote an excellent piece Questions for redistribution’s proponents: A few gems: • While Dr. Smith earns more money than does poet Jones, poet Jones earns more leisure than does Dr. Smith. Do you believe leisure has value to
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From the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, D.C. awash in contracts, lobbying wealth By GREG JAFFE and JIM TANKERSLEY Washington Post Excerpt: WASHINGTON • So much money to be had if you know where to look. The avalanche of cash that made Washington rich
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From the Editors of National Review, The Fifty Year War. Excerpts: Poverty in the United States is an economic issue, to be sure, especially as it relates to economic growth, the most important driver of employment and wages. But it is
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From the Editors of National Review, The Fifty Year War. Excerpts: Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the number of Americans living in poverty is higher today than it was in 1964, while the poverty rate has held steady
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Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal Obama’s Envy Problem. Excerpts: Now about inequality. In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville noticed what might be called the paradox of equality: As social conditions become more equal, the more people resent the
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“The problem of politics is that it does not know how to get less wrong. It is as a practical matter impossible to design a national health-care policy that can be tweaked and improved every quarter, or on-the-fly in real
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“A third threat is the growing complexity (and sloppiness) of statute law, a grave problem on both sides of the Atlantic as the mania for elaborate regulation spreads through the political class. I agree with the American legal critic Philip
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“In the real world, the complexity here gets pretty hairy pretty quickly: There’s a lot more to health care than picking any 12 of 50 options out of a hat and ranking them. There are hundreds or thousands of factors
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