Obama Meant to Destroy Solidarity, Not Save It
Solidarity—the concept that we have concrete duties to others with whom we share society, especially the poor and marginalized—has never been a word with much cachet in American politics. It’s not that...
View ArticleA Call To Reparations Is A Dangerous Call To Victimhood
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ essay, The Case for Reparations, has been published to great fanfare. By journalistic standards it is a massive tome which does not deliver on the promise of “groundbreaking” original...
View ArticleLittle Leviathans Everywhere
If you ever wanted to create a government that could tax people but didn’t want to fuss with the hassle of taxpayer accountability and voter-approved limits on budget growth, you’d probably create...
View ArticleWhat A Constitutional Federal Budget Would Look Like
Americans all across the country recently celebrated our independence from Britain, the Founding Fathers, and their vision of democracy and limited government. If the Founders were alive today,...
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Presidential Battleground States: A History
In the companion essay to this, I reviewed the history of presidential elections that followed the re-election of an incumbent president, with particular attention to “battleground” states, defined as...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Reign Of Terror, 1937-1944
From time to time, some of us wonder how we got here. We hear quaint expressions like “freedom of contract” and ask, whatever happened to that? How is it that two people are no longer allowed to enter...
View ArticleSupreme Court Dries Price Controls Like A Raisin In The Sun
How would you like it if, after a year of planting, growing, and harvesting a crop, you learned the government would take 47 percent of your yield without any compensation or guarantee of future...
View ArticleHow Racism And Nativism Enabled The New Deal
If you ever visit Hyde Park, the home-turned-museum of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you will be struck by how many people view Roosevelt as the savior of American democracy. It is a useful chance...
View ArticleYou Shouldn’t Have To Pay For Peanuts If You Don’t Want To Eat Them
Most Americans don’t give a second thought to the cost of a bag of peanuts, except when they cost way too much at the ballpark. However, Americans will collectively spend an estimated $2 billion on...
View ArticleFor Conservatives, Donald Trump Shifts The Window Of What’s Possible
On one of William F. Buckley Jr.’s “Firing Line” shows, Clare Boothe Luce intoned that “politics is the art of the possible.” The sarcasm in Buckley’s reply is unmistakable, though restrained, so taken...
View ArticleTed Cruz Is Right: You Don’t Have A Right To Health Care
There was a moment in the CNN Debate between Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders when the Senate’s senior socialist thought he had his Texan colleague dead to rights. Sanders asked Cruz whether he believed...
View ArticleThe Left Brought On The Nuclear Option By Making Judges Political
Speculation abounds regarding what the Senate’s having gone “nuclear” means for those of us living in the brave new morning after. For every commentator who rues that our justices will now decline in...
View ArticleWhy ‘Net Neutrality’ Is Nothing More Than Corporate Power Grab
Recently, you may have heard the scary news that the Trump administration is trying to destroy the internet. Last week, tech companies like Twitter and Facebook had a “week of action” to promote...
View ArticleHow Do Reagan, FDR, And Modern Conservatives View ‘The Forgotten Man’?
Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the author of the new book, “The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.” Olsen’s...
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No, Joy Reid, A ‘Classical Liberal’ Is Not A Soft Socialist
It’s always deliciously entertaining when someone in the mainstream media puts her ignorance on full display, just as MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid did with this tweet: My first reaction was to do some...
View ArticleA Year In, Trump Epitomizes America’s Cultural Inflection Point
Since Woodrow Wilson’s malignant presidency, we’ve measured progress by the growth and centralization of state power. Expansion is a premise so thoroughly entrenched in our politics that reductions of...
View ArticleMarco Rubio’s Plan To Suck Social Security Dry Faster With Family Leave Isn’t...
Sen. Marco Rubio's proposal to use Social Security to fund family leave would actually hurt families by worsening the program's already dire financial problems.
View ArticleObama Meant to Destroy Solidarity, Not Save It
The social vision of the Obama administration, embodied in the Brosurance ads, is the inverse of genuine solidarity.
View ArticleA Call To Reparations Is A Dangerous Call To Victimhood
Coates has set hearts on fire by assuring readers there are still a few morsels of consciousness-raising sweetness left in the race-relations goodie box.
View ArticleLittle Leviathans Everywhere
Why you probably weren’t aware of the fastest growing type of government in America.
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