John Puri writes for National Review Online about a current obsession among leading national Democrats. Democrats have coalesced around a target to pile onto this election cycle: billionaires — plus…
Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon reports on one of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ many contradictions. The way Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) tells it, the only way to…
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online explores politicians’ use of the words “people” and “elite.” [W]ho are the people? Some people? My people? In a speech last year, Senator Josh…
Christopher Bedford of the Federalist explains why American bars and restaurants are playing along with bizarre COVID-19 restrictions. In big cities across America, we have seen some laugh-out-loud-ridiculous “COVID-prevention” measures…
Dan Hannan muses in a Washington Examiner column about a recent rise in anti-democratic punditry. For the first time since at least the 1930s, serious commentators in Western countries are…
In a column devoted to Free-Speech Week, Thomas Donlan of Barron’s focuses some attention on a recent congressional proposal to limit speech. Among those exercising their right of free speech…
Hardly anybody will believe we are following this country’s design for a constitutional republic. We’ve heard terms like “welfare state,” and “bureaucracy,” with widespread perception that we are more of…
One certainly gets the sense that the Indian government is moving in the right direction by relying on advice from University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan. Bloomberg Businessweek offers the…
This forum has noted before the notion that China’s highly lauded government-directed economy is not all it’s cracked up to be. Jonathan Laing’s new Barron’s cover story raises similar concerns.…
This is one way to deal with the blossoming oligarchy that American government has become. As the Charlotte Observer reported a few days ago, the group GOOOH ? “Get Out…
I didn’t share oyabun Hood’s enthusiasm for the lengthy UPoR profile of The Group last weekend for a couple reasons. One, too many denials over the years — some to…
Despair.com has a demotivational poster that reads, “None of us is as dumb as all of us.” If you think an oligarchy with that attitude is dangerous, maybe you will…