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Damn the acquiescence

It’s important in a democracy that the losing side grapple with its defeat and learn the right lessons for next time. A certain amount of reflection and self-criticism is healthy, but we’ve blown past that point and are in danger of over-interpreting the 2024 results. Despite headlines proclaiming the GOP won in a “rout” or declaring that “This is the collapse of the Democratic Party,” November’s election was actually quite close. Trump received 49.9% to Kamala Harris’s 48.4%, a difference of a point and a half. That’s a smaller margin than any winner since Richard ...

Oct. 7 remains brutal wake-up call

Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s mass murder of innocents in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, “inspired” by ISIS’ exhortations to wage war against “non-believers,” reminded Americans about the existence of evil. In our comfort, in our security, we don’t see evil up close all that frequently. Unfortunately for Israelis, they see it every day. Evil in the form of Hamas on Israel’s southern border and of Hezbollah on its northern one. Israelis experience evil in the form of thousands of rockets fired at its civilians from both directions and from others, in the form of bombs blowing ...

Why America is in so much trouble

Shortly before Milton Friedman’s death in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing him over dinner in San Francisco. The last question I asked him was: What are the three things we have to do to make America more prosperous? His answer I have never forgotten: “First, allow universal school choice; second, expand free trade; third and most importantly, cut government spending.” That was long before Barack Obama and Joe Biden came along. There aren’t too many problems in America that can’t be traced back to the growth of big and incompetent government. It is notable that ...

Pardons turn the truth around

Yes, I was there on Jan. 6, 2021, in the sacred temple of democracy when a mob’s deadly rampage darkened democracy and injured 140 police officers in a president’s plot to undo the election he lost. That was the best day of President-elect Donald Trump’s life: crowd size, TV ratings, a siege, all of it for three hours. That tragic day burns in my memory. To skip stones on history’s river: The present reminds me of Reconstruction’s end, when the meaning of the Civil War got lost in a blizzard of presidential pardons. But American memory is short. Four years later, ...

Doubling down on a national asset

Rarely has there been a more concerted effort by a country’s leadership to eliminate a source of national strength than the Biden Administration’s war on fossil fuels. As President Biden prepares to shuffle off the stage, he’s attempting to burnish his tarnished legacy with last minute administrative actions. To that end, he has just banned new offshore drilling along an enormous swath of the U.S. coastline as part of — as a White House statement put it — “the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda in our country’s history.” “Ambitious” is one word for ...

Musk lambasted, Soros decorated?

One minute, he’s telling “subtard” online critics of his policy ideas to go “f**k yourself in the face.” The next, he’s fanboying for populist leaders at home and abroad. So what’s the problem with Elon Musk? Aside from his politics, that is. If Musk, the richest man in the world, held political views that were more establishment-friendly, he would have already received his US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Instead, he’s on the sidelines, yelling on his X Platform (ex-Twitter), for which he paid billions to reclaim control of this online global public square from the ...