“How dare they call themselves progressives,” Alan Dershowitz says. “They are regressives. They are reactionaries. They are repressors.” In a recent episode of EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek and Harvard law professor emeritus Dershowitz discuss his latest book “The Price of Principle: Why Integrity is Worth the Consequences,” which argues that “unprincipled” partisanship…
Data Is the New Oil, But Partisanship and Lack of Leadership Lead to Losses: Shark Tank Investor
August 8, 2022
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Digital transformation investment levels will reach $6.3 trillion between 2022-2024, according to the global research firm International Data Company (IDC). “For the first time ever, we see that the majority of enterprise organizations [at 53 percent] have an enterprise-wide digital transformation strategy, a 42 percent increase from just two years ago,” stated Shawn Fitzgerald, IDC’s research…
America Needs an Honest Adult Conversation
Commentary After watching the nasty, petty, and downright dishonest partisan political theatre around the Jan. 6 attacks and the effort to change voting laws, it is obvious that America needs an entirely new conversation about its challenges and its future. As Americans who love our country, it is difficult to disengage from the mean-spirited, constantly…
Madison’s 5 Lessons for Overcoming Polarization
Commentary There has never been a time when our nation wasn’t divided by partisanship. Yet some eras are more divisive than others, and few of us would deny that we’re living through an especially polarized time. For those who don’t trust their instincts on this question, numerous surveys bear out a collective hunch: polarization really…
Americans’ Discomfort: Non-Political Offices Have Rushed to Become Left-Wing Partisans
Commentary Writing for RealClearPolitics, Professor Andrew E. Busch of Claremont McKenna College finds that “one reason for Americans’ increasing political discomfort—the feeling that politics has become a blood sport in which traditional protections and safety nets are no longer present—is that the nonpartisan insulation protecting the rule of law and consent of the governed has…
Why Americans Should Learn to Spot Media Bias
Commentary Many Americans are waking up to the fact that our media ecosystem is not giving us an honest, balanced view. Instead of objective journalism that just gives us the facts and lets us decide what we think for ourselves, we’re increasingly subjected to partisan spin, slant, sensationalism, and other types of media bias that…
Despite Raging Partisan Gridlock, These Lawmakers Are Still Willing to Reach Across the Aisle
Some lawmakers are still willing to reach across the aisle despite the unprecedented level of partisanship that has gripped the country, a report released Monday shows. The report, authored by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, ranks every lawmaker’s bipartisan index, a metric measuring how willing they are to work…
Ancient and Lonely Urban Monuments Evoke Today’s Political Division
Commentary PITTSBURGH—The 2.8-mile-long East Street Valley neighborhood, which once flourished here, sure died hard. Drive, walk, or cycle past the remnants of it today, and traces of what used to be are everywhere along the hollow of the rolling Allegheny Mountain neighborhoods that lead out of the city proper from the banks of the Allegheny…
Awarding Our Friends
Commentary It’s gratifying to see prestigious awards bestowed on those who share our political or aesthetic sensibilities. Such awards confirm our predilections, assuring us that we’re on the side of the angels. Unfortunately, political partisanship often clouds the judgment of those responsible for the award. The predictable result is a long list of unmerited prizes….
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