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Ongoing debate over the word ‘conservative’
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online ponders the meaning of an important term. Twenty-five years ago, I met Scott Morris, when we both worked at The Weekly Standard. He asked,…
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Health Care
How To Save $2 Billion In Health Care Costs
Hard to imagine, but in a Weekly Standard piece, Ike Brannon makes the case that this is true: We could save $2 billion by adopting a more efficient eye dropper to…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Trump versus Obama in economic terms
Fred Barnes devotes a Weekly Standard column to comparing American economic performance under our current president and his predecessor. We now know why President Obama had to struggle so hard…
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Finances of left-wing attack-dog group questioned
Joe Schoffstall of the Washington Free Beacon details disturbing news about the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing nonprofit known for its “hate…
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Underestimated Ike gets his due
Tevi Troy writes for the Weekly Standard about new recognition of President Dwight Eisenhower’s underappreciated accomplishments. Dwight Eisenhower appears to be having a moment. A popular president who was nevertheless…
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O’Rourke explores the NYT’s alternate universe
P.J. O’Rourke uses a Weekly Standard column to document his recent trip to the world inhabited by the staff and readers of the New York Times. Do parallel universes exist?…
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Warren’s battle within the Democratic Party
Fred Barnes explains for the Weekly Standard why Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has more to worry about than insults from President Trump. While Trump is an irritant to Warren, she…
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Recent Democratic presidents won’t go away
Editors at the Weekly Standard highlight a post-presidential predilection that afflicts just one party. What is it about former Democratic presidents that they can’t leave the arena? They leave, then…
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“They blacklist you, rather than try to refute you.”
I enjoy reading the work of American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers. Her analysis of the plight of boys is a serious and thoughtful look at our culture. Now…
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The blockchain disruption
Tevi Troy and Jeremy Epstein write for the Weekly Standard about potential political impacts of blockchain. As the technology empowering Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, blockchains have been in the news…
Liberty
Conservatives as liberals
Elliot Kaufman ponders at National Review Online a prominent (neo)conservative’s argument about political labels. “Conservatives could ‘rebrand’ as liberals,” wrote Bill Kristol on Saturday, delighting the subset of the Internet…
Health Care
Cruz’s idea for addressing Obamacare
Former presidential candidate (and John Locke Foundation Headliner) Ted Cruz has ideas for fixing what ails federal health care policy. John McCormack reports for the Weekly Standard. More money—both for…