Tag: Viewpoints

The Difference Between Direct and Indirect Help to the Poor

Commentary There are two very different ways to help the poor. One is beloved of the left, but doesn’t work. The other is favored by the right and is effective alright, but it’s rarely defended on this ground. Let me explain. The left liberals want to help the poverty-stricken directly. They want to throw money…


Vote With Your Wallet!

Commentary In graduate school, I encountered the disturbing theory that your vote doesn’t actually count for much. We have a winner-take-all system of voting in this country. That means that one vote for x is always canceled out by a vote for y. So a husband and wife who disagree might as well stay home….


​​Looking for the Good in People

Commentary Every day, we’re barraged with media reports magnifying negative aspects of human behavior. Whether a story deals with geopolitical friction and conflict on the global stage, the acrimony of shrill, scorched-earth political tussles here in the States, or just the latest local crime, the repetitive din surrounding ugly behaviors can make it too easy…


McGowan’s Departure Marks the End of Labor’s Golden Era

Commentary The grind of politics is tough. It requires stamina, commitment, and focus. It is exhausting in every sense. Physically in the long hours. Intellectually with the reading, preparations, and deliberations. Emotionally with the decisions that need to be made not only in public policy but time from loved ones as well. Exhaustion is the…


Book Excerpt: Swiftboating America

The Epoch Times presents the second part of an exclusive edited extract from the forthcoming book “Swiftboating America” by Hans Mahncke, co-host of “Truth over News” on EpochTV. Sign up at SwiftboatingAmerica.com to get a notification once the book is out. On May 20, 2022, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, finally admitted that it…


Hillary’s Swiftboat Project

The Epoch Times presents the second part of an exclusive edited extract from the forthcoming book “Swiftboating America” by Hans Mahncke, co-host of “Truth over News” on EpochTV. Sign up at SwiftboatingAmerica.com to get a notification once the book is out. On May 20, 2022, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, finally admitted that it…


John Robson: Elite Pushback Against a Canadian Foreign Agent Registry Is a Ruse

Commentary A news feed just offered me a “historic election” in Turkey. But they don’t have such things there. Cemeteries are full of indispensable men, and newspaper “morgues” of crucial events now forgotten and unimportant then. Whereas Canada really faces a historic moment with regard to foreign meddling. David Johnston is astounded that we won’t…


Are We Aztecs? Understanding the Transgender Epidemic

Commentary I have been trying to understand why people from CEOs to self-described “progressive” politicians act in such heavy support of the metastasizing transgender movement. As recently as a few years ago, a girl who liked to climb trees was a girl who liked to climb trees and a boy who liked to play with…


The Continuing Relevance of ‘Li’l Abner’

Commentary What’s $4 trillion among friends? Just a sop to distract Leviathan for a short while. He’ll snaffle it down and then take a brief nap before waking up and demanding another snack. This time it was a $4 trillion nip and tuck to the federal debt. For decades, the people Americans have elected to…


Barbara Kay: Gender Ideologues Trying to ‘Cancel’ Objective Research on Dysphoria, Transitioning

Commentary By 2017, already professionally engaged in transgender politics, I began to focus on the anecdotally observed phenomenon of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD), that is, a sudden declaration of a need for gender transition in adolescents and young adults (AYA) who had never presented as dysphoric in childhood. I sought research material, but available studies…