Commentary Twenty-five years ago, I heard for the first time of a fact that in the last few years has become a central feature in American life. A few months before, I had left academia to work as a low-level political appointment at the National Endowment for the Arts in the Bush administration. I hadn’t…
Postcards From the Catastrophe
Let’s play “one of these things not like the other.” On April 11, a young Black man named Daunte Wright was accidentally shot and killed while resisting arrest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. At first, rumors flew around that Wright had been pulled over because he had an air-freshener dangling from his rearview mirror. In fact,…
‘Power to the People’: The GOP Bloodbath Has Begun
Commentary It’s not just the terminally Deep State Mitch McConnell—excoriated in an entirely justifiable statement from Donald Trump—but Kevin McCarthy and a host of other Beltway Republicans who must somehow either lose their positions of authority, that is be sidelined and rendered either impotent or inconsequential, and/or be primaried out before the election of 2022….
Opinion: ‘Power to the People’: The GOP Bloodbath Has Begun
Commentary It’s not just the terminally Deep State Mitch McConnell—excoriated in an entirely justifiable statement from Donald Trump—but Kevin McCarthy and a host of other Beltway Republicans who must somehow either lose their positions of authority, that is be sidelined and rendered either impotent or inconsequential, and/or be primaried out before the election of 2022….
‘The Vision of the Anointed’ Explains Our Situation Today
In my last column here for 2020, I’d like to look back to one of my favorite books from the 1990s, Thomas Sowell’s “The Vision of the Anointed.” To say that the book was prescient is an understatement. You can instantly discern its prescience by savoring its subtitle: “Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.”…
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