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:…
Every year witnesses the publication of countless books. Some are interesting, and a few are inspiring. The forthcoming book by Charles Koch (businessman and philanthropist) and Brian Hooks (CEO of philanthropic community Stand Together), Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for…
Washington Here we are halfway through 2020, and what is the latest finding on the achievements of President Ronald Reagan in office? Well, they come from an Oxford University emeritus professor of politics, so they have a great deal of…