Education
Chickens coming home to roost
Robert Tracinski identifies for Federalist readers a disturbing trend among major stories from 2015. But the big new development in 2015 is that the left’s culture war came back to…
Jonathan Chait
American political commentator
Elections & Public Integrity
Presidents as celebrities
Tevi Troy examines for Weekly Standard readers the importance of celebrity to modern-day presidents. Troy’s comments focus on a new book from Kenneth T. Walsh. In the current landscape, Walsh…
Education
Cooke ponders the latest developments in college P.C. wars
Recent John Locke Foundation speaker Charles Cooke shares with National Review Online readers his thoughts about the latest developments in political correctness on college campuses. That so-called liberal students are…
Elections & Public Integrity
Goldberg wonders whether the Clintons care about their controversies
Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column at National Review Online questions whether Bill and Hillary Clinton think much about their many political controversies. I once had a boss who gave me some…
Liberty
Political correctness denial
Sonny Bunch of the Washington Free Beacon devotes some attention to liberal complaints about political correctness. Jonathan Chait wrote a long essay on the ways in which the politically correct…
Health Care
Correcting the revisionist history on Obamacare
James Capretta helps Weekly Standard readers look past the spin tied to the Obama administration’s legally questionable decision to delay the Obamacare employer mandate. After getting over the shock of…
Liberty
Rand Paul’s uneasy relationship with the media
Conor Friedersdorf shares with Atlantic readers some interesting observations about media coverage of Kentucky’s libertarian U.S, Sen. Rand Paul. Critiques of democracy are as old as the excesses of the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Chait found the black hat
Though Jonathan Chait didn’t read my take on the subject before writing in the new Atlantic about the vilification of public-sector workers, he identifies the same culprits: “politicians who make…
Liberty
RE: Lefty pundits, Obamacare
Mitch, I think the problem Silver, Chait, et al., share is that they cannot imagine why any sensible person would oppose universal health care. Hence their insistence on dismissing anyone…
Liberty
Do left-leaning politicians have a clearer view than their pundit pals?
Jay Cost thinks so, and he explains why in a new Weekly Standard column: Nate Silver and Jonathan Chait disagree with my recent assessment that the health care law has…
Liberty
Re: moving goalposts
In an earlier post on health care, I included some words and a graph from Jonathan Chait. It distracted from the rest of the discussion and it lost its impact,…
Liberty
Behind closed doors health overhaul
Is a Senate health care bill a fait accompli because of backroom deals? Have moderate Democrats followed orders and put aside their deep concerns about state and federal budgets, a…