From The Federalist, Donald Trump Is The First President To Turn Postmodernism Against Itself by David Ernst: Like other utopian visions that seek to remake human beings into something alien to their nature, however, it is incapable of compromise, and thus
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The ferocity of Trump opposition has caused a reaction causing his supporters to double down on their support and pushing his reluctant supporters more into the enthusiastic camp. Any criticism of Trump is rejected out of hand as disloyal. We
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from John Cochrane at The Hill, Here’s what healthcare looks like in a perfect world: It’s wiser to start with a vision of the destination. In an ideal America, health insurance is individual, portable, and guaranteed renewable. It includes the right
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from National Review, Who Will Protect Americans from the Protectionists? by George Will Today’s Republican administration promises protection against the destruction of American jobs by the Chinese, Mexicans, and other foreigners. The really prolific destroyers are: Americans. As Reason’s John Tamny says,
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from the Sultan Knish, Daniel Greenfield, End The Media The White House press corps is an outmoded institution. There’s no need to crowd a small number of media elites into a limited space. Or any space at all. We live
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From Robert Zubrin at Richochet, America Needs a Liberal Party: In his classic 1944 work, The Road to Serfdom, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, then living in exile in England, shocked readers with his diagnosis of Nazism. National socialism, he argued, was not
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From Peggy Noonan at The Wall Street Journal, Trump Tries to Build a ‘Different Party’: All week I thought of one of the best pieces on the meaning of Trumpism, from last May, by Joshua Green in Bloomberg Businessweek. Mr. Trump suggested to Mr. Green
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From the Wall Street Journal Editorials, About That Obama Boom: A closing word to Trumpians who will point to the fourth-quarter decline in net exports that subtracted 1.7% from GDP. Part of the explanation is that a bumper crop of soybean
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From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) John Stuart Mill opened his classic On Liberty by noting that as countries became
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from Jonah Goldberg at National Review, The Unwisdom of Crowds: When Coolidge said, “When you see ten problems rolling down the road, if you don’t do anything, nine of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.” Again,
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The concluding paragraphs of Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Dignity- Why Economics Can’t Explain The Modern World: Yet innovation, even in a proper system of the virtues, has continued to be scorned by many of our opinion makers now for a century
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Megan McArdle at Bloomberg View writes Liberals Will Not Like How This Revenge Plot Ends But there’s a reason that they say revenge is a dish best served cold. People who seek vengeance without stopping to count the potential costs to
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From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) Illiberal democracies gain legitimacy, and thus strength, from the fact that they are reasonably
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from The City Journal, Trump and the American Divide by Victor Davis Hanson: Indeed, one irony of the 2016 election is that identity politics became a lethal boomerang for progressives. After years of seeing America reduced to a binary universe, with culpable
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from The City Journal, Trump and the American Divide by Victor Davis Hanson: The urban party has been getting beat up a lot, even before Trump’s surprising victory. Not only have the Democrats surrendered Congress; they now control just 13
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From The Wall Street Journal, Trump May Herald a New Political Order by John Steele Gordon: The Obama years showed liberalism to be exhausted, its ideas out of date and its advocates living in an imagined past. The Democratic Party has never
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The clerisy’s anti-innovation and antimarket and antiliberty rhetoric in the years since 1848, though repeated down to yesterday, misapprehends the scientific history. The clerisy says that every spillover in the environment justifies world-governmental control. Scientific economics suggest that it does
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