Former president Donald Trump pledged to “restore free speech” in his Madison Square Garden address in New York City on Sunday. As the political left seeks to punish speech it opposes with excuses of countering misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech, Trump’s was a positive message to send. Unfortunately, Trump had significantly and preemptively undercut his […]
AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, THE WIDE WORLD OF TRUMP. New York — If you wanted to see living, breathing proof of former President Donald Trump‘s success in broadening the appeal of the Republican Party, you just had to look around his mega-rally in Madison Square Garden Sunday night. No, Trump did not draw hordes of fans […]
The roots of this nation’s Progressive Movement were racist, repressive, dismissive of the First Amendment and other civil liberties, and hostile to women’s rights to vote or to petition elected officials. Those are key takeaways, some of them relevant to this year’s election, from a Pulitzer Prize-worthy new history about former President Woodrow Wilson, whose presidency was the apotheosis […]
One of the biggest handicaps of U.S. policy is that across administrations, U.S. policymakers expect rogues to conform to Washington’s bureaucratic geography rather than vice versa. After my first trip to the Horn of Africa, the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs sought a debriefing about Fahad Yasin, a former Al Jazeera journalist with close […]
The polarized politics of our day has put pregnancy help organizations in the crosshairs. The fight is already at our door. For a few, it’s already come through their shattered windows. For many others, it’s been some other form of targeted vandalism, threat, or violence. For some, the fight arrives via the mail in the form of a lawsuit brought by […]
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Last year, pastor Joshua Robertson told Joya Schreurs at the Center for Public Justice a powerful story about how he came to be the pastor he is today. It was a harrowing journey that included a shocking secret that nearly kept him from achieving his potential after high school. Robertson, a star high school […]
More than a fifth of people find the idea of meat rationing acceptable. That number, along with the prospect of meat rationing itself, might sound absurd. However, if our ruling class gets its way, that number might just go up. Among a certain subset of climate scholars, there is something of a subfield dedicated to nudging, guilting, and tricking the masses […]
There may never be a more incompetent government official running for president than the appointed Democratic nominee and current vice president, Kamala Harris. Despite her campaign’s media-aided reboot and rebranding, nothing can hide Harris from the biggest threat to her presidential campaign: Harris. After all, it was Harris’s intelligence and judgment that led her to […]
What makes a restoration of former President Donald Trump interesting, if not tantalizing, is the simple fact that Trump can’t seek reelection in 2028. While some have suggested that he would be a lame duck upon taking the oath for a second, nonconsecutive term, that’s probably not true if he finds himself with Republicans in […]
On Oct. 14, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to three American professors. The academics are Daron Acemoglu from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simon Johnson also from MIT, and James Robinson of the University of Chicago. The professors were recognized for their work on how institutions are formed and how institutions affect prosperity. The Royal Swedish […]
In a brazen display of governmental overreach, the Department of Justice is once again attempting to criminalize political participation in America. The recent warning letter sent to Elon Musk’s America PAC is not just a bureaucratic formality; it’s an aggressive attack on the very fabric of our democratic process. The alarming truth is that the […]
On corporate tax rates, former President Donald Trump’s position is demonstrably superior to Vice President Kamala Harris’s demagoguery. As part of her tiresome schtick about how she is going to pay for all her promises by raising taxes on billionaires and corporations, literally an arithmetical impossibility by any reckoning, the Democrat Harris keeps bashing the […]
