The other day, an Ohio University emeritus economics professor and senior fellow at the Independent Institute named Richard Vedder wrote in The American Spectator a thank-you note to Jimmy Carter on his 100th birthday — a thank you for his…
I taught mathematics at the Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB) near Caracas from 1973 to 1975 and returned to teach summer classes in 2005 and again in 2008. My wife and I honeymooned in Venezuela in 1977. That doesn’t make me…
Too many people pretend to have read The Wealth of Nations and I think it’s time to reclaim the importance of pretending to have read The Theory of Moral Sentiments. It is 301 years since Adam Smith was born and…
MAHA Pushback Now that RFK, Jr. has teamed up with Trump to make Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) the new, if slightly less significant national slogan, the left will try to undermine the one thing that seems to unite both…
“President Ronald Reagan famously spoke about a ‘Time for Choosing.’ While he is not here to experience the current moment, we who worked for him in the White House, in the administration, in campaigns and on his personal staff, know…
Better late than never? We are mesmerized watching a five-year-old Netflix morality series called Madam Secretary, which follows a secretary of state who is skillfully portrayed by Téa Leoni. Remember the rich lady searching for her son on dinosaur-infested Isla…
Kamala Harris claims that, although she’s reversed her positions, her “values” remain unchanged. The epitome of hypocrisy in the interest of political expediency, Harris’ claim is also an insight into the subjective reality that she and America’s Left share. In…
I watched the debate, and … oh boy. Pay no attention to whether Donald Trump lost his cool — he did, Kamala Harris sounded annoying — she did, or The moderators shamelessly took sides — did they ever. None of…
Democrats understand that once you’re atop a tiger, you can’t get off. They understand that because they’re living it via their prolonged lawfare campaign against Trump. By pulling out all the stops to stop him, they have raised November’s stakes…
