A May 31 New York Times column by Robert McFarlane, author of Is a River Alive?, celebrates the demolition of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in northern California, thus providing some “400 miles of restored habitat for salmon…
One of the most important insights of public policy is the understanding that most laws are predicated upon a (stated or unstated) quid pro quo. Take, for example, the roiling monthslong debate about President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. Prior…
It makes perfect sense for President Donald Trump to dive headfirst into a death struggle with diversity, equity, and inclusion, the programmatic expression of woke ideology. Aside from globalization’s decimation of America’s working class, it is unlikely that anything accounts…
As Women’s History Month winds down it’s worth noting that many women, contrary to the prevailing narrative of the women’s movement, reject the obsession with group identity and victim status, extolling the evenhanded treatment of others without regard to race,…
Democracy arose in Britain and in America as a fight for rights. In the 1600s, Parliament stood up for their rights against King Charles I. Charles wanted to concentrate all political power in himself, much as the Tudor monarchs had…
In March 1976, Time magazine profiled a Democratic governor from Georgia who was making a long-shot bid for the presidency. A former peanut farmer, he was viewed as an oddity in progressive circles. He talked about his relationship with Jesus…
A New York Times story last week reports fears by Democratic politicians of calls by some leading Republican politicians for a new Constitutional Convention. This is distinct from the customary means by which the Constitution has been amended: proposals for…
All 13 presidents of the United States since Dwight D. Eisenhower have been college graduates. The years after high school are critically formative ones when adolescents become adults, so most presidents in the modern era were significantly influenced by their…
On Monday, outside of the Manhattan courthouse where ex-Marine Daniel Penny was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of drug-addled psychotic and career criminal Jordan Neely, a host of perpetually aggrieved individuals howled for vengeance disguised as “justice” against Penny….
