Brandon Crocker, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Brandon Crocker
Brandon Crocker is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator living in San Diego.
by | Feb 19, 2024

Capitalism has proven itself to be an extraordinary engine for creating wealth and improving standards of living, as well as promoting the rule of law, representative government, and more free and open societies, in general. In fact, capitalism is unique…

by | Feb 10, 2024

I’ve heard a lot about “settler colonialism” lately. It’s usually applied to Jews who, for the past 150 years have been migrating back to the ancestral homeland of Judaism, which in 1948 was carved out of the remains of the…

by | Mar 19, 2021

Inconsistency is, it seems, part of what makes us human. Nonetheless, some inconsistency is still rather striking. Take, for instance, the modern American liberal who spends so much time and effort hailing the virtues of “diversity” yet who spends even…

by | Sep 28, 2019

Now that a Swedish teenager has testified before Congress and school children across the globe have walked out of classes in protest of lack of action on climate change, I’m sure we all have a much better understanding of climate…

by | Jul 18, 2019

Awaiting the start of an economics class during my freshman year in college, I often found the notes left on the chalkboard from a preceding lecture to be interesting. So one day I came early and sat in on what…

by | Apr 3, 2018

When commenting on Gary Cohn’s resignation as his chief economic advisor, President Trump said that Cohn was a great guy, but a “globalist.” So what is a “globalist”? Among Trump and many of his supporters, it seems to be disparaging…

by | Oct 30, 2017

Recently I wrote in these pages explaining why elimination of the state tax deduction, which seems to have wide support among conservatives, is neither a good, just, nor conservative idea. My argument rested primarily on the bedrock premise that it…

by | Oct 27, 2017

As we debate tax reform, there seems to be a growing consensus among conservative commentators that in order to pay for lower rates, we need to target deductions, which is largely correct. One specific target, however, is misguided. That target…

by | Aug 22, 2017

If Confederate statues are really generators of racial hate, as their most fervent detractors insist, it seems incongruous that over the past 50 years attitudes in the South on race have seen such an incredible transformation, all the while under…

by | Aug 18, 2016

Trump’s reformulated tax plan still has some problems, but it has many positive elements, and is certainly far better than anything we can hope to see from Hillary Clinton. But if Trump really wants to be a “pro-growth candidate” the…

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