No solutions.
Less appreciated than it should be is the fact that government at every level – with no operation of any legislature or really any semblance at all of representative government – assumed micro-level control of our daily lives.
Less appreciated than it should be is the fact that government at every level – with no operation of any legislature or really any semblance at all of representative government – assumed micro-level control of our daily lives.
A small group of high-ranking Washington insiders is guilty of what is perhaps the most brazen political misconduct in our history.
(Blue) states were in desperate financial trouble long before COVID-19.
For 30 years, presidents and political leaders of both parties have led us around the fence on the subject of China.
Having imagined the mortality attendant to a runaway coronavirus pandemic, have our policy leaders taken the time to also imagine the mortality attendant to a shutdown of the American economy?
We suddenly are aware of the fact that untold numbers of things – things that are absolutely essential to the health of our economy as well as to our very bodies – are manufactured in a totalitarian country that will stick it to us the first time it suits their convenience.
It has been a rough week but here’s the good news. We’ll get through this. And we’ll be smarter and we’ll be stronger for having done so.
In a single generation, the ruling class and the elite media have each managed to squander their inheritances.
Six candidates and yet not a scrap of Clintonesque or Obamaesque political skill in a contest in which nothing less will do.
Promises of government palliatives don’t resonate with middle class voters who are, on their own, doing better than they have in years.
The entirety of the fiasco Monday night in Iowa is an allegory on the Democratic Party’s impulse toward top-down command and control for the benefit of party insiders.
For as much as civility is a nominal good thing, of what use is it if it’s not reciprocal?