The best indicator of the waning influence of the WASP is that most people no longer know who the term refers to. Stripped to its barest terms, “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant” could mean anyone from an Appalachian bootlegger to a recently naturalized citizen who grew up in the Cotswolds. But these disparate figures, while white, of […]
This week, on a Zoom call with some colleagues, I told the group that I have been traveling around Europe and the Caucasus since May. One of my colleagues responded with a flattering shout. Wow! she said. You’re not just a tourist, you’re a traveler! Which was gratifying, of course, but also made a complicated […]
Teachers unions suffered yet another deserved but embarrassing defeat this week. In Arizona, the state Supreme Court found that not only did unions fail to submit enough valid signatures to get their anti-school-choice proposition on the fall ballot, but they also broke the law by hiring felons to collect signatures. This is just the latest […]
Growing up in Australia, I never fully understood why Americans fought so fiercely for their rights. I knew, in theory, that rights mattered. But America’s arguments over the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and other constitutional freedoms often seemed excessive. It took living in Australia, watching how quickly a government can move when rights are […]
Economic expansions rarely announce themselves. Every great American economic boom has an opening act. They begin quietly, as thousands of entrepreneurs make investment and hiring decisions long before the headlines catch up. The challenge isn’t understanding that opening act afterward. It’s recognizing it while it unfolds. It begins with business owners deciding whether to invest […]
These “Patriotic Millionaires” are surely the most insufferable people on the planet. They regularly take out adverts, sign letters, and sponsor campaigns urging their governments to tax them more, thus indulging in a uniquely hideous blend of conspicuous consumption and virtue-signaling. “Look at me! I am both very rich and a public-spirited soul!” Like so […]
Gasoline prices fell temporarily during a cooling of tensions between the United States and Iran, but energy analysts argue that a decades-old federal mandate continues to push up fuel costs and the overall cost of living. Critics say Congress could repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard, but the program has survived thanks to the strength of […]
Have you seen The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Iron Age blockbuster? I haven’t. Have you read it in the Greek original? Me neither. Petty details like that shouldn’t stop us from joining the culture-war combat about the movie. This is a democracy, not Odysseus’s Greece. Not that Odysseus called it Greece. But enough […]
I come back to Amsterdam a lot, and every time I arrive, I feel a little sheepish about speaking Dutch. I actually know some of the language — I lived in the Netherlands as a child, in Eindhoven, down in the south, and I learned the language the way a 10-year-old learns anything, which is […]
President Donald Trump’s efforts to combat national security threats in Latin America are bearing fruit. America’s historic enemies are running scared. On Sunday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega canceled future elections in his country. He made the declaration on the anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, which ended the Somoza government and first brought him to power […]
As with most tax-the-rich plans, Mamdani’s $5 million cutoff couldn't raise enough cash, so he decided that the somewhat prosperous are also failing to...
Liberal: The DSA’s Demographic Sweet Spot “The most Democratic voting group in America,” notes Silver Bulletin’s Nate Silver, is “voters with postgraduate degrees but...
