Are People an Asset or a Liability?

Kevin Williamson writes Welcome to the Paradise of the Real in The National Review Online.  It is a bit long but quite worthy of the time to read it in its entirety. Excerpts: None of those problems facing the poor — and they are the key problems — is an economic...

Capitalism is Not Inevitable

Kevin Williamson writes Welcome to the Paradise of the Real in The National Review Online.  It is a bit long but quite worthy of the time to read it in its entirety. Excerpts: We treat the physical results of capitalism as though they were an inevitability. In 1955,...

The Party of the Wealthy

Matthew Continetti writes in The National Review Online Oligarchy in the 21st Century Excerpts: The campaign against inequality and the call for higher taxes and the regulatory burdens placed on extractive industries further the self-interest of the liberals who rule...

Politics is a Footnote

Kevin Williamson writes Welcome to the Paradise of the Real in The National Review Online.  It is a bit long but quite worthy of the time to read it in its entirety. Excerpts: Politics is parasitic. Even at its best, it produces no goods of its own; it has only that...

The Value of Simple Policy

from Kevin Wilson in The National Review, The Mapmaker’s Dilemma Excerpt: “The economy” is an abstraction, a way of talking about billions and billions of discrete activities and transactions that are too complex and fast-moving to be aggregated into something...