American journalist
The current spike in homicides and other violent crime has created an urgent need for more and better policing. Unfortunately, the lingering effects of the anti-police hysteria that swept the…
Duke professor Michael Munger's recent article for the American Institute for Economic Research urges caution about a rather blithe attitude we've seen lately to toss over social and political institutions…
Megan McArdle devotes a New York Post column to the type of nationalism America needs now. “Nationalism” has become a dirty word in the modern era, having become inextricably associated…
It’s the final paragraph of “Behold the priest-kings of the future Supreme Court,” a Washington Post piece by Megan McArdle: A country where half the citizens feel their concerns have…
Megan McArdle writes in the Washington Post about the price businesses can pay when their leaders engage in politics. Remember when companies tried to stay out of politics? I’d imagine…
Megan McArdle writes for Bloomberg View about the impact of the new federal tax law on state governments led by Democrats. It’s an unhappy time to be a high-income professional…
Megan McArdle argues in a Bloomberg View column that Google is likely to pay a price for its politics. James Damore is gone from Google. But he will not soon…
I’ve always found it hard to understand why people from minority communities often seem to be more concerned about police misconduct than about crime. Like the victims of police misconduct, crime…
Two and a half years ago, in my very first Legal Update, I discussed then Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to curtail his agency’s controversial “adoptions” program. Under the program,…
Megan McArdle writes about the latest instance of left-wing hypocrisy: The Department of Energy has balked at a request from the Trump transition team to provide the names of all…
Thanks to President Barack Obama’s debut as a contributor for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the ‘public option’ has made its way back into the great health care…
Megan McArdle has a nice piece at BloombergView in which she talks about the communications gulf that separates the political elite from ordinary Americans. She ends by saying: If the elites want…