The Limits of Progressivism

From National Review, From Woke to Broke by Matthew Continetti: The federal government can put Social Security and Medicare on the credit card for as long as demand for U.S. Treasuries is high. States and municipalities don’t have that luxury. There is an upper bound...

The Paradigmatic Liberal

from Matthew Continetti in national Review, The World As It Wasn’t: Apparently Obama had read a column — I have an idea of which one — about the role of identity in shaping people’s lives and political choices. “Maybe we pushed too far,” he mused. “Maybe people...

Discuss Among Yourselves

from Matthew Continetti at National Review, Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble What passes for news today is speculation and advocacy, wishful thinking and self-fashioning, mindless jabber and affirmations of virtue, removed from objective reality and common sense. The...

Blinded by Outrage

from Matthew Continetti at National Review, Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble The other day, for example, Bob Schieffer observed on Face the Nation that one in five journalists live in New York, D.C., or Los Angeles. The news is manufactured by residents of the...

Marginalized Knee Jerk Journalism

from Matthew Continetti at National Review, Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble There is still excellent journalism. I would point, for starters, to the work on charter flights that led to the resignation of Tom Price. But the overall tone of coverage of this president...