Opinion

It hit me in a flash last week as I listened to a professor explain why arguments that sound plausible can turn out to be false. The postliberals, the NatCons, the alt-rightists, the integralists, the Groypers — they all base their case on a fallacy. Philosophers call it “equivocation”, and it means using the same […]

“Now is the winter of our discontent made an inglorious bummer by this Duke of York.” My mangled version of the words that open Shakespeare’s tragedy, Richard III, might forgivably have been muttered crossly this week by King Charles III following the arrest of his younger brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew and Duke of […]

The Supreme Court faces a fateful decision in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. If it declines to take up the case and fails to slam the door on Boulder County’s audacious climate change lawsuit, the climate litigation free-for-all that will follow could cripple American energy and critically undermine our federal system. After law school, […]

Last weekend, former President Barack Obama acknowledged a blunt political reality: “The average person doesn’t want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of downtown … and we’re not going to be able to generate support [for treatment] if we simply say, ‘It’s not their fault, they should be able to […]

Last December, the Trump administration announced the largest arms sale to Taiwan in history: an $11 billion weapons package that included everything from drones and Javelin missiles to the HIMARS rocket systems. The sale, which still needs to be formally submitted to Congress, provided Taiwanese officials with a bit of relief. After all, Trump has often sounded ambivalent about […]

After failing to obtain the release of three U.S. prisoners from Taliban custody using the ‘carrot’ method, U.S. leaders suddenly appear prepared to deploy the stick. On Feb. 13, Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council Sebastian Gorka noted on X, “we will not rest until Dennis Coyle and Mahmood Habibi come home.” This was a […]

Would you refuse hundreds of millions of dollars annually for K-12 education at no cost to your state budget? That is a decision each of the nation’s 50 governors, who meet in Washington this week, must make this year in response to the first nationwide school choice program enacted last summer.  Included in the new […]

Sometimes watching an old movie can feel like opening a time capsule. Nostalgia for some, younger audiences laugh at the use of brick-sized cellphones, cassette tapes, and floppy disks — technologies that were once cutting-edge. While most of the technology Americans rely on today is circa 2020s, one critical system remains behind the times. If […]

In 2010, President Barack Obama and his party exploited enormous congressional majorities to ram through a controversial healthcare law, despite widespread opposition to many of its major components and clear signals from the electorate, such as the people of Massachusetts electing a Republican to the Senate, to stop it. Democrats sold the law as a […]

If you want to be a pessimist, the worst economic news for President Donald Trump during his first full year back in the Oval Office is that the Federal Reserve cannot possibly justify slashing the interest rate charged by banks to borrow from each other overnight. If you want to be an optimist, you just […]

Democrats’ hubris in thinking they can outsmart basic economics is matched only by how reliably economics drags their policies back to reality. In 2024, the city of Seattle boldly introduced a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers, targeting companies such as DoorDash and Uber Eats. The law required those companies to pay drivers a minimum per-mile rate and a […]