PoliticsCommentary
After a flurry of activity—the president’s tariff threats and showdowns with Mexico and Canada, his expressions of interest in Greenland, the policy changes obtained by… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.” We’re at… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkly, even… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
New Year’s Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is RealClearPolitics… Read More
Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits… Read More
Why did Marc Andreessen—inventor of the first internet web browser and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today—switch from his longstanding support of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Postmortems of the Democratic Party’s loss, running well beyond the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., are starting to come… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Here’s another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It’s the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic… Read More
