January 6, 2022

What's really democratic? Not HR 1

Unless you have spent the last year in the jungles of Borneo, you are undoubtedly aware of the Democrats' constant attacks on states that have attempted to tighten their rules on voter identification and mail-in ballots.  Famously, in p...

April 30, 2021

Biden’s First Hundred Days: A Failing Report Card

I anticipated the Biden presidency with great trepidation. On the campaign trail—or at least in the primary and presidential debates, as he really didn’t campaign in the usual sense—he appeared to be weak, mentally and physically, a...

April 28, 2021

The dangerous attack on meritocracy

The core meritocratic idea — that tasks should be assigned to those most qualified to accomplish them — is, and has been for some time, under attack.  That attack, predictably in the current identity politics–obsessed clim...

April 15, 2021

The Misguided Call for Reparations

 The city of Asheville, North Carolina approved a measure giving its black residents certain benefits as reparations for slavery.  Councilman Keith Young, who is black, referred to the “hundreds of years of black blood” that bui...

April 14, 2021

The truth about attacks on Asians

Recently, there has been a drumbeat of expressed concern by the left — the Democrats and their ever faithful messengers, the press — over a rise in hate crimes committed against Asians.  The shooting in Atlanta, in which six of ...

February 27, 2021

Desperately needed policies that Biden doesn't like

There are three crucial governmental policies that need to be implemented that the Biden administration will almost certainly reject. Without these policies, the trends that they are meant to resist may become impossible to reverse. The first is p...

February 19, 2021

Our Dire Future Under Biden

We are living in what seem to me to be terribly fraught times, times that are even more worrisome than those at the height of Cold War tensions, when we schoolchildren were drilled on what to do in case of a nuclear attack--an attack that was in fact...