Central planning, never out of fashion on the left, is now more popular than ever on the right thanks to the GOP’s populist takeover. This is why a recurring effort to intervene in the credit-card processing market is finding more…
Democrats don’t like the Senate. Sure, they currently hold more seats in the chamber than their GOP rivals. But there is deep dissatisfaction with the Senate’s structure. With senate seats apportioned equally by state, significant disparities can open up among…
Is there no end to the mendacity? That is my first thought when I see the ad blitz for the campaign to defeat a constitutional amendment before Ohio voters in a special August vote. The ad claims gravely that the…
Harry Truman didn’t like pretension. Competence and honesty coupled with dedication to duty — these he respected. George Marshall, who served him both as Secretary of State and then as Secretary of Defense, commanded his complete respect. He called him…
Populist conservatives have made their peace with big government and seem to spend their time these days fighting symbolic culture-war battles over such silliness as drag shows. Many of their “solutions” involve owning the libs by harnessing state power on…
Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System By Ted Cruz (Regnery Publishing, 256 pages, $30) What is the meaning behind Lady Justice? Some might see her bronze skin and posture and say that she embodies some archaic belief…
German journalist Peter Seewald in Volume I of his biography of Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI on April 19, 2005, called Ratzinger, “perhaps the greatest theologian ever to sit on the chair of St. Peter.” As a young…
The European elite’s sour reaction to the rise of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s next prime minister, reveals less about her politics than its own. It harbors a death wish for Europe — a willfulness passed off as a “progressive” ideology that…
What does progressive conservatism mean? Labels can confuse more than they clarify, and sometimes they lie. People asked how Obamacare could raise healthcare costs. It was labeled the “Affordable Care Act.” And how could the mobs in Portland be dangerous?…
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….