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by | Sep 18, 2021

Friday Here I am in Washington, my hometown. The most beautiful city in the world. Just a super city of broad boulevards, a magnificent grassy Mall, spectacular neoclassical buildings and monuments… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and…

by | Aug 9, 2021

President Trump sent the D.C. establishment into hysterics by running on industrial policy, national economics, immigration restriction, and skepticism of globalism. But Trump’s economic worldview is … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get unlimited access to…

by | Jun 29, 2021

The American Civil War wasn’t just about abolishing slavery. I know you may have been taught something different in grade school, as I was. But in the mind of Abraham Lincoln, who led the North, savin… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling…

by | Jun 20, 2021

It’s impossible to divorce politics and religion. We earnestly hope people are motivated in their political commitments by their deepest sense of who they are and what is their purpose here and are im… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support…

by | Jan 23, 2021

Last week in his morning newsletter, American Spectator writer Daniel J. Flynn summed up the Trump years in a single paragraph. He ended it with these words: Republicans evolved from invertebrates to… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism…

by | Jan 11, 2021

One of the things that bothered me most about the Obama presidency was the hero-worship of him by the left and, if you will pardon the redundancy, the media. Actually, hero-worship isn’t quite strong … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here….

by | Aug 15, 2020

The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz is famous for his epigram, “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” It’s especially easy to see the truth of that statement in this pres… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support…

by | Feb 19, 2020

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M. Bordewich (Knopf, 480 pages, $32.50) Most Civil War students realize… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get…

by | Nov 25, 2019

Nearly 20 years ago, in the wake of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, the masterful Wendell Berry wrote an impassioned essay. The “only result,” he wrote, of the wrenching confrontation, spon… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and…

by | Oct 18, 2019

Trump critics increasingly compare him to Andrew Johnson, who, in 1868, was the first president to face impeachment. Like Trump, Johnson was easily provoked into unruly speech and considered morally i… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and…

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