"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Ideas about the role of government in society, its relationship to citizens, and about how much power the government should be given.
I have not updated the leading and coincident economic indicators I have been following for approximately seven months. They have now been updated up to October-November 2021. Having waited that … Read More
Recently, a friend of mine asked me how I felt about our descent into the hell of our ideological warfare. What animated her interest was the kinds of emotions generated … Read More
But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory, … Read More
It seems as if the “woke” in the U.S. are taking over the Democratic Party. In the process, they want to fundamentally transform American cultural, social, economic, and political institutions. … Read More
NOTE: This post was updated on June 10, 2021 with additional material. During the entire Trump administration, American progressives accelerated their struggle against Trump into a campaign against American cultural … Read More
Is the world becoming a less free place for human beings? Just how much human freedom can we find in each of the world’s countries? I suspect many people would … Read More
One of the greatest priorities for American progressives is the so-called “Green New Deal.” In case you are one of the very few who has not heard of it, the … Read More
You would not believe it from the top-line poll results about Biden’s job approval. Nevertheless, his support among the American people is rapidly eroding. Normally at this time in a … Read More
I have just updated the leading and coincident economic indicators I am following, the first update I have done in a year. The last year has been extremely crazy economically. Every time I thought about … Read More
Progressives never tire of promoting the Iron Law of Wages. First promulgated by Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo in the early 19th century, the Iron Law is touted by the … Read More
I have often written about Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom as the most likely route America might travel to tyranny. Yet, there is another mechanism, the killing of a democracy … Read More
Occasionally, I am challenged over the reality of a fact I assert quite often: Namely, that fascism and communism are essentially the same. Whether they are or not is a … Read More
For the past four years, progressive Democrats have been accusing President Trump and the Republicans of being fascists and racists. Yet, both by their behavior and in how they want … Read More
One month after the U.S. general election of 2020, the probable presidential winner appears to be Joe Biden. To be sure, Republicans are crying foul over possible massive electoral fraud in … Read More
While watching the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, I was struck by how much more these hearings were than just about her nomination to the Supreme Court. In … Read More
In June, 2016 and September, 2018, I wrote posts that compared the economies of all countries on Earth for which data was available. My purpose was to examine which of … Read More
American progressives’ lies have systematically misrepresented what is transpiring in the United States for a very long time. What they shrilly claim is so different from actual reality, they must … Read More
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court of the United States. What followed in Bork’s Senate nomination hearings was the beginning of a Democratic method for … Read More
In the short-term, no one can really expect Americans to become united as a nation again. That is because the differences between us are not merely the shallow ones produced by … Read More
The picture above epitomizes what the American Left would like to do to American society. Their antipathy to President Trump and the Republicans was generated by their overweening desire to … Read More
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty … Read More
When George Floyd was killed, seemingly with deliberation, by a policeman in Minneapolis, MN, almost universal condemnation followed. This censure came from both sides of the American ideological divide. Yet, … Read More
I was reading an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine recently entitled The Broken Bargain. It was about the multifarious populist and nationalist revolts among Western electorates over the last few … Read More
NOTE: This post was updated on April 16, 2020. The explosion of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the international scene emphasizes yet again that China has no intention of merely coexisting … Read More
Recently, Congress passed and the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which also is called the CARES Act. It was designed to rescue the financial lives … Read More
The world has completely changed in less than half a year. Because of an irresponsible Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese coronavirus (COVID-19, also known as the Wuhan virus) has been … Read More
In my last post, I looked at four ways in which progressives’ loathing of Donald Trump was damaging the Democratic Party. These were: The Russian collusion delusion, charges of obstruction of justice, … Read More
The distress and uncomprehending dismay in the faces of Democratic Party members shown above speak volumes. It was taken on the election night of November 8, 2016, and records their … Read More
One of the proudest achievements of Donald Trump and the Republicans was the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of December 2017. In fact, many neoliberals would argue governments should never … Read More
A growing divide has been building for at least a decade between Western dirigiste elites and the peoples they purport to rule. This breach has become large enough to inspire … Read More
