National Review- Quillette
- The Unending Search for Racism March 6, 2025The debate about Rickard Andersson’s killing spree has been informed by an unhealthy discourse about race and immigration in Sweden.Dan Korn
- Podcast #275: Christianity and the American Polity March 6, 2025Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.Quillette
- Nicholas II, Aššurbanipal, and Marco Polo Walk into a Bookstore… March 6, 2025Quillette editor Jonathan Kay reviews three newly published history books about the Assyrian Empire, the fall of the Romanovs, and the travels of Marco Polo.Jonathan Kay
- The Unending Search for Racism March 6, 2025
- Jay Nordlinger
- A Carving Up, Etc. March 7, 2025Reader mail on the Nazi-Soviet Pact and other matters.Jay Nordlinger
- The shape of a skyline, &c. March 7, 2025On a war of old; the identity of Jimmy Lai; Judge Webster vs. Kash Patel; patriotism vs. jingoism; and more.Jay Nordlinger
- A Bundle of Issues March 5, 2025On Castro, Putin, communism, fascism, etc.Jay Nordlinger
- A Carving Up, Etc. March 7, 2025
Tag Archives: policy
GameStop: Please Stop the Nonsense
The recent surge in the stock price of GameStop has all the usual suspects commenting on “The Greater Meaning of it All”. As usual, very few of these recently minted experts know what they are talking about. Among the more … Continue reading
Thomas Sowell on Culture
JFB
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Tagged culture, policy, politics, Thomas Sowell
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Joe Biden’s “American Recovery Plan”
“Drink coffee and do stupid things even faster” — Sign in a coffee shop. Apropos the sign, an avalanche of stupidity is coming our way. Just 5 days away from his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden has outlined the first part … Continue reading
Joe Biden–Man of Science
Joe Biden, who during the campaign repeatedly insisted that he relied on “the science” in formulating policy proposals has just tossed science overboard. According to the Washington Post, a spokesman for the President-elect said that the incoming administration “…will release … Continue reading
Is Voting Rational?
See the video below by the editor-in-chief of Reason Magazine, Katherine Mangu-Ward. JFB
Posted in Political Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Biden, policy, Reason Magazine, Trump, Voting
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California’s Wildfires
Despite the apocalyptic rhetoric of environmental alarmists, the destructiveness of the raging wildfires in the Pacific Northwest are primarily the result bad policy–not climate change. See the short video below on the subject. JFB
Posted in Policy, Politics
Tagged California, climate change, Newsome, policy, Sierra Club, Wildfires
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Competing Nightmares
We live in a strange political times. One of the strangest things of all is that winning candidates get elected because of who they are not. Donald Trump got elected in 2016 because he was not Hillary Clinton. If Joe … Continue reading
Battleground
The phrase battleground state has taken on a whole new meaning. As reports from various urban battlefields come in, the picture of what is happening is becoming clear. Let’s summarize. (1) In a number of American cities protests turn into … Continue reading