At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher reviews The Strange Death of Europe, written by Douglas Murray. The book is a brief view into the trouble facing Europeans today as they attempt to preserve their own identity and culture. Dreher writes (abridged): As regular readers know, I finally got around to reading the British writer Douglas Murray’s […]
A Victory for Consumers
Last year’s repeal of the Obama administration’s regulation resulted in a lot of intense reaction, with cries that it would break the Internet. Not so, points out James Freeman in the WSJ. The irrational fear was that service would be so “throttled’ and slowed by deregulation that the Internet would never be the same. A […]
Donald Trump Buries William Kristol’s The Weekly Standard
The print-media home of the neocon movement in the Republican Party, The Weekly Standard, is closing up shop. The magazine’s founding editor, Bill Kristol, is probably America’s best known and most ardent neoconservative (though there is certainly plenty of competition). But after the magazine’s editors took an explicitly anti-Trump stance, its Republican readers fled. Jeffrey […]
What if Donald Trump Has Had Enough?
A conversation with a high-ranking Republican who himself had been considered a possible president, from Peggy Noonan in the WSJ: He speculated aloud on a hunch he’s had that Mr. Trump might not run for re-election. Think of it, he said. Unrelenting bad news is likely coming—final findings from Mr. Mueller, a new and hungry […]
Saudi Government a Liability to the U.S.
At The American Conservative, Daniel Larison plainly states what is well-known to nearly all Americans outside the Washington D.C. bubble, the Saudis are a liability to the United States. He writes (abridged): Outgoing U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley unwittingly summed up the stupidity of the Trump administration’s embrace of Saudi Arabia in a recent interview: “What I can […]
Unsecured Western Borders Welcome Mass Third World Migration
Pat Buchanan asks at The American Conservative, what the causes of the current crises in Western democracies could be. Lack of assimilation of third world immigrants, the demographic challenges posed by a shrinking native population, and globalization feature in his analysis. He writes (abridged): What are the underlying causes of these (Western) 21st-century crises of […]
California More Like a Banana Republic?
The French are not the only nation to have doubts about the wisdom of its government. Brexit at its core is about the Brits doubting that Brussels know best. Even the U.S. has its own version, William McGurn reminds readers in the WSJ. War on Poverty and the Devastation of the Black Family Until recently […]
Dateline Paris: “One Should Now Anticipate Violence”
Founding editor of The American Conservative and author of Ex-Neocon: Dispatches From the Post-9/11 Ideological Wars, Scott McConnell explains to readers that violence should now be expected in France as radical leftists have joined the riots there, using the cover of the Gilet Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protests to loot and destroy private property. He writes (abridged): […]
Kagan’s Book Not Convincing on “Liberal World Order”
In a lengthy piece at The American Conservative, Naval Reserve officer and vice president for research and policy at the Charles Koch Institute, William Ruger, systematically dismantles Robert Kagan’s new book The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World. Ruger’s tears down Kagan’s argument for a “liberal order” as not “truly necessary or desirable today.” He […]
How Obama Shackled a Healthy Economy
How did the U.S. economy go from an OK condition in January 2017 to an intense, nationwide labor shortage and rising wages less than 18 months later? Daniel Henninger in the WSJ answers his own question – it lies in deciphering the effects of the Trump administration’s abrupt unwinding of the Obama era’s economic regulations. […]
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