September 26, 2024

Kamala Harris’s Four (Weird) Freedoms

In the current election cycle, serious charges have been raised by both candidates concerning the fitness for the office of the presidency of the other candidate.  The essence of the Harris charge dwells on what she claims has come out of T...

May 2, 2023

The New Robber Barons

 A free country will always have its robber barons.  But not all such barons are equal.  Nor are they all equally bad -- or good. The title was not meant to be a compliment when it was first given to the Rockefellers and Carnegies o...

September 18, 2022

Progressives Then and Now

What is progress, and what do progressives want?  We Americans surely ought to know by now.  After all, we've been dealing with self-labeled progressives since the early decades of the last century. The assumption is that p...

August 13, 2022

Should Trump Run in 2024?

At this historical moment, somewhere around half the country remains ready to utter some version of "good riddance" to Donald Trump.  And yet, in the not too distant future, a solid majority of Americans may well find themselves t...