So the 2023 Christmas season is about to do the annual post-Christmas fade. Which in turn means the New Year arrives with a whole year ahead in which, this presidential election year of 2024, to read or re-read some of…
The Mont Pelerin Society held its 2023 annual meeting at the same venue as the historic 1944 Bretton Woods international monetary conference, the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The conference was held from October 29 to November…
Why should conservatives look to Fusionism as they debate, often with raised voices, the future of conservatism? Because Fusionism offers a philosophy of prudence not rashness; tradition not the impulse of the moment; a transcendent order not a fatal conceit;…
As Rabbie Burns reminded us, in his barbaric Scotch brogue, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft agley,/An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,/For promis’d joy!” If he had been a wiser man — and been born…
Studies have consistently shown a pronounced left-leaning political inclination among college professors. For example, a Harvard University survey last year revealed that of the 476 faculty members who responded, around 80 percent identified as “liberal” or “very liberal.” Meanwhile, 16.8…
In May I visited Monterey in California for a conference. Knowing that it is the heart of John Steinbeck country, I grabbed a beat-up copy of Travels With Charley a couple weeks before the trip. The book is a page turner…
Republicans are reeling after the recent midterm elections, in which they underperformed expectations. Most of them don’t have a clue why this happened. Numerous lame explanations have been suggested: Democrats have mastered ballot harvesting and mail-in voting better than Republicans;…
Gunnar Myrdal vs. Friedrich Hayek. There stood a pair of leading heavyweights — a Swede and an Austrian — who were nothing alike. They went into the ring with radically different ideas and theories about the “dismal science” (not to…
Thomas Sowell turned 91 this week. One suspects his face never catches up to his age. But long ago his behavior betrayed an inner-directed curmudgeon decades older than his birth certificate. Jason Riley forewarns readers in the introduction of Maverick:…
