I spent the weekend in Miami. At a small conference. Sharing refreshment with activists and journalists. Renewing old relationships. Making new friends. Debating political ideas. It was wonderful. COVID-19 obviously has been terrible for those who died as well as…
In a page 1A story in the most recent weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal, reporters Ken Thomas and Sabrina Siddiqui start their story with this remarkable lead: “President-elect Joe Biden made uniting the nation among his more pressing priorities as a…
President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden are quite different from each other. It is obvious in their personalities and in their policy positions. So we can reasonably assume that their White House management styles will also be radically different….
Please allow me to add to American Spectator senior editor Dan Flynn’s deconstruction of the mindless fertilizer storm that has followed Joseph Epstein’s amusing joshing of First-Lady-To-Be Jill Biden for using the honorific “Doctor.” This is important stuff in a nation…
The soon-to-be First Lady going by the moniker “Dr. Jill Biden” catalyzed a gendered controversy over credentials not witnessed since a swarthy gentleman under demon makeup and upon platform boots insisted that women call him Dr. Love. “Any chance you…
One of Tesla’s biggest problems isn’t range — or recharge times. It’s build quality. Leaving aside what propels a Tesla, how Teslas are put together is shameful. As evidenced by one coming apart the other day. Nathaniel Chien didn’t think he’d bought…
As the saying goes, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Nowhere is this truth more evident than in the recent behavior of the allegedly “reformed” Export-Import Bank of the United States. Reauthorized by Congress in December 2019 with…
Intellectuals are supposed to speak truth to power. Unfortunately, some seem to be more interested in saying what everyone expects them to say, which only reinforces the status quo. Thankfully, a few scholars are resisting this trend, fighting for what…
I am intimately familiar with the frustrations that typify the higher education bubble from my vantage point here at one of America’s liberal arts institutions. To list a few, there is the omnipresent and overfunded diversity bureaucracy, the overreliance on…
