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- Claire's Weekly Letter: An Army of Yesterday’s Civilians October 10, 2026 Claire Lehmann
- The Genetics of Crime and Punishment October 10, 2026Despite her professed atheism, Kathryn Paige Harden insists on making quasi-religious claims about free will and moral responsibility.Damien Morris
- The Left Has a Problem with the American Revolution October 9, 2026Essays in the New Yorker, the NYRB, and the Atlantic make one worry about the kind of nation they might urge the United States to become.Tony Fels
- Jay Nordlinger
- ‘True Patriot Love’ May 15, 2025Love of country in the time of Trump.
- WFB & Co. May 12, 2025My time at NR has now come to an end. God bless you all.
- The Conundrum of China Trade May 7, 2025A longstanding question, whose end is nowhere in sight.
- ‘True Patriot Love’ May 15, 2025
Category Archives: Public Finance
Tariffs Again
Donald Trump, who considers himself an authority on pretty much everything, wrote one of his typically bombastic posts on Truth Social right after this morning’s release of unemployment data. He wrote: “LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrats, Donald Trump, policy
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The Great American Spend-a-thon
The volume of bad reporting in 2025 is truly astounding. Never have so many trees been felled for so little accurate information. For instance, the NY Times published a story that sniped at Bari Weiss, now the editor-in-chief at CBS … Continue reading
Posted in Political Economy, Politics, Public Finance
Tagged Democrats, policy, politics, Republicans
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Article One, Section 8 of the US Constitution.
“The Congress shall have Power …To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures…”. It seems pretty clear to me that Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution (quoted … Continue reading
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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
Posted in Culture, Policy, Public Finance
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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
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, Public Finance
Tagged President Biden, Progressives, ProPublica, Tax
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Will the Real Bernie Sanders Please Stand Up?
Now that Bernie Sanders (I. Rolling Stone) is well on his way to getting the Democratic nomination for President it is worth reflecting on what Senator Sanders really stands for. It sure isn’t freedom and opportunity for all. If you … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Politics, Public Finance
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A Giveaway to the Rich they Say
The reaction of progressives to the passage of the recent tax bill tells you all you need to know about what progressivism is really all about. The tax bill is, they repeat endlessly “a giveaway to the rich and to … Continue reading
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The Tax Reform That Isn’t
It is now tax reform season, which means that politicians are poised to unleash even more nonsense on the public than is customary. So perhaps it makes sense to frame some of the underlying issues that are involved. First and … Continue reading
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The Trump Tax Plan
As promised, the Trump Administration released the outline of its tax plan. Predictably and amusingly enough, it was greeted by cries of horror and anguish by Progressives. It would appear that the Trump plan would allow American taxpayers to keep … Continue reading
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Where’s that $100 Trillion?
That’s right. Trillion. There is a reason, actually lots of them, why Washington is consumed with the latest Trumpian Tweet to the effect that Team Obama spied on Trump’s Presidential campaign. For one thing, if the charge is true, … Continue reading
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