The Trouble With Narratives

from William McGurn at the WSJ, Who’s Afraid of Tim Scott: How different from only two weeks ago, when a Columbus, Ohio, police officer saved the life of a black teenager by shooting another black teen about to stab her. Asked about it, White House press...

Woke Irony

From The Woke ‘Model Minority’ Myth by William McGurn in the Wall Street Journal: To normal Americans, it makes no sense. How are Asian-Americans not “people of color”? But give the North Thurston folks credit for following progressive logic to its conclusion. Modern...

Who Are the Real Materialists

From The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn, Making Capitalism Great Again? Experience, moreover, also tells us that when competition is tethered the result isn’t cooperation. It’s collusion. Indeed, Sens. Warren and Rubio would both find no more steadfast...

A Want of Modesty

From The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn, Making Capitalism Great Again? We can likewise haggle over Sen. Rubio’s specifics, such as whether American families stand to benefit more from tailored tax credits than from the economic growth that a flatter tax...

How Democracy Becomes Tyranny

from Why Elites Hate by William McGurn in the WSJ No small part of the attraction of identity politics is its usefulness in silencing those who do not hew to progressive orthodoxy. This dynamic is most visible on campuses, where identity politics is also most...