Even with U.S. healthcare having the “most unfilled jobs of any industry,” the Biden administration is touting the highest “healthcare job growth in 32 years.” Job growth is always a good thing, or is it? Consider who benefits when the commercial workforce grows….
What would you think about a Washington insider who was a partner in a big D.C. lobbyist law firm called Covington & Burling, the founder of a self-identified “nonpartisan” advocacy group called Common Good, and was a self-described “radical centrist,”…
Former board member and long-time conservative writer and thinker James Piereson joins hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast. They discuss the question of the fourth great political revolution in the United States and…
Early this week, if you opened the maps app on your phone and zoomed in on Paris, you would notice something peculiar: Almost every major highway leading into the country’s capital city was marked in dark red. There hasn’t been…
SACRAMENTO — One of my favorite Soviet-era jokes involved a man who was admiring a shiny American car on a Moscow street. Another man approached and also admired it. The first man said: “What a beautiful Russian car. What magnificent,…
“The president proposes, the Congress disposes” is the way the Founders set up our government. Here’s how it’s supposed to work: legislation is proposed (by the president or a member of Congress) through an “authorization” bill that “can establish, continue,…
Former Secretary of State and White House national security administrator Henry Kissinger’s last service for his country was to warn his fellow Americans that substituting artificial intelligence for real human intelligence was “simply a mad race” toward “catastrophe.” Kissinger joined…
Many of our current domestic disasters stem from a slate of legislation passed six decades ago: President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, which resulted in a disastrous centralization of power in the Washington bureaucracy and then sought to impose its destructive…
Thirty-five years ago, on the eve of the end of the Cold War, the great conservative thinker Robert Nisbet wrote a small book titled The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America, which diagnosed the ills of modernity in…
