A “Broken Windows” Foreign Policy
A review of America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder by Bret Stephens Bret Stephens is certainly not the first journalist to note that America seems to be in decline....
View ArticleTwo Distinct Electorates
Interest in the 2016 presidential election contest is heating up. It is an arguably unfortunate aspect of the US national political scene that no more than midway through a presidential term, the...
View ArticleBlind Hatred Meets Self-Hatred Meets Alienation
President Barack Obama made two appalling statements recently. First, he characterized the Jewish victims of Islamo-terrorism in the Parisian Kosher market as merely victims “… of violent, vicious...
View ArticleThe Consequences of America’s Asymmetric Politics
There is a sharp and consequential asymmetry between left and right in American politics. It is my purpose here to describe the asymmetry and explain both its origins and consequences. But first an...
View ArticleHillary’s Not Liberal Enough?
According to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal (4/10/15), the left wing of the Democrat Party is not happy about the fact that Hillary is virtually unchallenged for the Party’s presidential...
View ArticleThe Role of Religion in Liberty
It seems self-evident that in order for a free society to succeed, the people of that society must be virtuous. How so? Well, if all the citizens of a country are free to choose where to live, what...
View ArticleThe Nature of Freedom
The title suggests that there might be something ambiguous about the definition of freedom. Well according to our old friends Merriam and Webster, it is “the absence of necessity, coercion, or...
View ArticleThe Revolution the US is Experiencing – and What if it Succeeds
The word revolution usually connotes the overthrow of the government of a sovereign entity, and its replacement by a completely different governing structure. Purely a political phenomenon! Successful...
View Article2008 Redux?
The prospect of a Biden presidency and a radical left Democratic administration running the country fills me with dread. But I believe it is instructive to compare my dread to what I felt 12 years ago...
View ArticleThe Best One-Term President?
I was working on an essay entitled “Perhaps the Best One-Term President in a Century,” In which I compared Trump favorably to the previous five one-term presidents: Taft, Hoover, Ford, Carter, Bush I....
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