Random Thoughts from Thomas Sowell at Town Hall: Global warming, due to greenhouse gasses, is the latest in a long series of one-factor theories about a multi-factor world. Such theories have often enjoyed great popularity, despite how often they have
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from National Review, Kevin Williamson, Starving the Beast in Kansas: Unserious men promise to Starve the Beast and balance budgets by eliminating “waste, fraud, and abuse,” the formulation relied upon by, among others, Donald Trump, 2016’s poster-boy for terminal unseriousness.
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from Charles Cooke at National Review, Conservatives Refuse to Repeat the Mistakes of History (a fundraising letter) Tricky as it may be to acknowledge, the eternal verities care little for the zeitgeist. Fashions may change, and the shape of the mob
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from The Wall Street Journal, Ending America’s Slow Growth Tailspin, by John H. Cochrane Why is growth slowing down? One camp says that we’ve run out of ideas. We were supposed to have flying cars and all we got was Twitter. Get
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The Industrial Revolution brought with it a huge growth in productivity. So much so that while in the 1700s some 90% of the population had to work in agriculture-food growing; today less than 2% of the population is occupied with
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from Mona Charen at National Review – Reaganism is Dead “This is the end of Reaganism,” former Senator Tom Coburn, a conservative hero, told me. The three-legged stool of strong defense, small government, and conservatism on social issues has been
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from The World According to Trump by Charles Krauthammer in National Review: Both the Left and the Right have a long history of advocating American retreat and retrenchment. The difference is that liberals want to come home because they think
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From the Wall Street Journal, How George McGovern Made Donald Trump Possible by Phillip Terzian: Mandate for Reform was issued almost 50 years ago, and half-forgotten as soon as its guidelines were adopted. But looking at it, I realized that
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