It is sufficiently obvious as to not require detailed explanation that in the modern era, movements for change require intellectuals, activists, and foot soldiers at scale in order to gain traction in the public square, much less achieve some measure…
Barbarians Within the Gates The mob succeeded in defacing the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square and spray-painting on St. John’s Church, a structure the mob set fire to several weeks ago, near the White House. The mob failed…
A debt-to-GDP ratio exceeding 100 percent? Check. A contracting economy? Check. Millions dependent on the government? Check. Blaming foreigners for internal problems? Check. Officeholders choosing national over political suicide? Check. An unemployment rate around 15 percent? Check. A world power…
There’s no pleasing liberals. You can instigate the most socialist set of policies in living memory, you can shut down a huge chunk of private enterprise, you can rack up government debt that will take decades to pay off, and…
In the wake of the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Education earlier this week, civic illiteracy and even hostility to the principles that made America great continue to plague our nation. For decades, Washington has continued to centralize…
Washington The forces of militant ignorance are in motion again. They are marching with Crazy Bernie Sanders and his spendthrift wife. They are marching with Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartendress. They are rousing the drowsy forces of the Occupy…
“Socialism is coming,” J. A. Wayland promised in 1902. “It’s coming like a prairie fire and nothing can stop it!” No man did more than Wayland, a millionaire socialist–entrepreneur, to fulfill this unrealized prophecy. In the decade leading up to…
Bad news, Bernie. Really bad news. When billionaire Mike Bloomberg joined the Democrat debate stage two weeks ago in Nevada, a brooding Bernie Sanders looked ready to pounce on him screaming, “Capitalist reptile!” The old codger glanced, grimaced, growled at…
Much to the dismay of their Boomer and Gen X elders, an Axios poll from early 2019 indicated that roughly half of millennial and Generation Z respondents agreed with the statement that they “would prefer to live in a socialist country.” This…
