In the previous installments of this look back on the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, I have identified specific policy areas of failure that historians and FDR partisans ignore, downplay, or explain away in their infatuation with the nation’s 32nd president….
Many new books are appearing drawing various lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Conspicuously absent, however, is any analysis of how weaknesses in U.S. law allowed COVID-19 to become the dominant issue in the 2020 presidential election. Whether or not one believes…
America is the greatest country in the history of the world based on God-given freedom. Our freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are now being assaulted on every front by mobs, high-tech censors, perpetuators of the cancel…
“Bureaucracy Expanding Beyond the Beltway,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, June 23, 2021.
The majority of Americans believe that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decisions in handling the COVID-19 pandemic have been influenced by politics. On Monday, thousands of emails from Fauci surfaced, revealing how he…
On Wednesday, President Trump finalized an overhaul of one of the most important environmental laws in America. Credited by some as the “Magna Carta” of environmental legislation, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is one of America’s main legislative weapons…
Over many decades in America, we’ve observed a great shift in the manner by which society attempts to solve problems. Despite a governmental system designed by founders who were suspicious of centralized government power, we continue to fund a larger…
The famous Jewish scholar Israel Meir Kagan (1837–1933) had the idea in his 80s that with his children off living their own lives and his Yeshiva pretty well established to continue without him, it might be time to say goodbye…
For companies trying to bring potential life-saving products to the market, the least they can ask for is a responsive, timely bureaucracy. Unfortunately, approving reduced harm technologies in a prompt manner seems to be beyond the ability of American regulatory…
