National Review- Quillette
- Space: The Ultimate (Boardgaming) Frontier July 26, 2024A homage to Phil Eklund’s masterpiece, High Frontier, on its twenty-fifth birthday.Jonathan Kay
- The Puzzle of Generational Politics July 26, 2024Disenchantment is leading younger generations to embrace a politics marked by anger and alienation.Joel Kotkin
- The German Left’s Jewish Dilemma July 25, 2024Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals.Gerfried Ambrosch
- Space: The Ultimate (Boardgaming) Frontier July 26, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- A Righteous Nabbing July 26, 2024U.S. law enforcement captures Mexican drug kingpins.
- Running Farce July 26, 2024On our federal budget deficit, national debt, and entitlements.
- A politician’s claim, &c. July 26, 2024On J. D. Vance and people without children; a question for Harris and Trump; a stamp for Alex Trebek; and more.
- A Righteous Nabbing July 26, 2024
Category Archives: Policy
Modern v. Classical Liberals
“Governments are living things and operate as organic wholes. Moreover, governments have their natural evolution and are one thing in one age, another in another. The makers of the Constitution constructed the federal government upon a theory of checks and balances … Continue reading
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Is Donald J. Trump a Conservative?
At the moment former President and current Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump is the defendant in a books-and-records criminal trial in lower Manhattan. Serious people doubt that the books-and-records charges should ever have been brought, much less blown up … Continue reading
Presidential Immunity? No Thanks.
Q: Where in the Constitution is any form of immunity specified. A: Nowhere So how is it that the Supreme Court is embroiled in a case in which apparently serious people argue that former President Trump is immunized against … Continue reading
Trump Strikes Again
We are back from Bordeaux and guess who is in the news? Bad ideas never die. They just bide their time. The latest version of this truism is brought to us, naturally enough, by a Presidential contender. This time around … Continue reading
The State of Play
Question: What are the serious challenges the United States currently faces? Hint: The answer does not include specifying pronouns. The answers should be more than obvious. (1) America faces perhaps the most important foreign policy challenges it has ever faced. … Continue reading
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Free Speech
A bipartisan group of 74 Congressman urged Harvard, MIT and UPenn to dismiss their respective presidents a few days after their Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism. Representatives Elise Stefanik (R., NY) and Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla) actually co-authored a letter … Continue reading
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Progressive Good Crime
Coinciding with the Biden Administration’s push for higher taxes on wealthy individuals and a greatly expanded IRS, ProPublica published documents that purport to show private tax information of several high profile billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and … Continue reading
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Ben Sasse for President
We are once again faced with the question of whether it is worth voting in the Presidential race and if so, for whom. Before considering any particular candidate, let’s have a look at the question of why vote at all. … Continue reading
Can Trump Win the 2020 Race?
To win, he has to pull an inside straight. With time running out, it’s not likely. But it is possible. The Biden campaign strategy has always been to focus the race on Trump’s personality and avoid policy. In this he … Continue reading