Is Sid Vicious spinning in his grave? The former lead singer of the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten (née Lydon) supports Donald Trump and Brexit. During an interview on “Good Morning Britain” last Monday, Rotten, who is now an American citizen,…

The Dow eclipsed 20,000 this week. That’s bad news for people who hate good news. “If the question is when markets will recover,” Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times on election night, “a first-pass answer is never.” A…

In “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” country music’s George Jones sings of a man who “can’t” — until the day he dies — “stop loving” an ex from long ago. The song (and its story of a long-broken relationship) came…

The challenge to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Britain’s Labour Party took an interesting turn yesterday when Angela Eagle dropped out of the race and threw her support behind fellow MP Owen Smith after Smith earned more support in ballots cast…

So Theresa May is set to move into Number 10 Downing on Wednesday after Andrea Leadsom withdrew her candidacy for the Tory leadership. May and Leadsom had been set to face off in a leadership vote on September 9th. But…

London A week after the historic Brexit referendum I attended what we might call its sequel. As Americans will recall, throughout Great Britain on June 23 all of the country’s bien-pensants ever so unctuously voted against Brexit — that is…

The polls had barely closed in the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum when people on the losing side were calling for a revote. So far nearly four million people have signed petitions to hold another contest. It’s unlikely. The margin of…

What France and Germany failed to do the past several centuries with bullets, they succeeded with bureaucrats. Last week, Brits succeeded in repelling the bureaucrats with ballots. Predictions of catastrophe predictably ensued. It’s a bad idea to outsource your government…

Over at Foreign Policy, James Traub has written a piece titled, “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses.”  As you can probably guess, it is none too sympathetic to those who voted in favor of…

In 1778, after the British defeat at Saratoga, a young nobleman said to Adam Smith, “This will be the ruin of the nation.” Adam Smith replied, “Be assured my young friend that there is a lot of ruin in a…