The Washington Post didn’t report it, but Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser recently attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new restaurant (Wheelhouse) in the high-end, Chevy Chase area of DC. Except that Bowser is a Democrat, and Democrats are said to loathe business. No doubt there’s rhetorical truth to the above, but as always with the left, […]
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Immigrants will do work that Americans won’t. That’s what defenders and critics of immigration say. Which means even defenders miss what is arguably the bigger, more pertinent positive about immigrants: they’ll travel long distances frequently by foot, to do work that Americans won’t do. The lengths gone to by immigrants to find work stateside
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Market prices are arrived at through infinite decisions and actions taking place every millisecond of every day around the world. Capitalism is happily too fast for politicians and policy scholars eager to influence them. Worse, it’s often true that what policy experts imagine to be true about prices and policy isn’t. Take, for instance,
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The launch of Fox News remains one of the great free market stories of modern times. While conservatives had long expressed frustration with the left-wing bias that defined traditional media, Fox News met that rising frustration with reporting that incorporated a conservative view of domestic and global news that had historically been ignored by
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When’s the last time you held a newspaper in your hands? Tick tock, tick tock… The question you’re contemplating comes from someone who daily reads the print editions of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. Which is the point as readers will soon see. To read newspapers nowadays is to unwittingly seek
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Government spending is excessively harmful precisely because it’s the central planning of precious goods, services and labor by the federal government. Conservatives and libertarians at one time nodded along to the latter, while progressives and liberals rolled their eyes. Not so much today. As this write-up’s title indicates, they’ve become one. See Patricia Cohen
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Australia’s young people are way too smart for Australia’s politicians. See the recent implementation of Australia’s “Social Media Minimum Age Act.” The Aussie law is meant to protect youths from the alleged harms of social media. The law’s conceit won’t age well. Easily missed by Australia’s political class is that the innocuous sounding legislation
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What’s firstly puzzling about the right’s Ivy League and Ivy League-adjacent hatred, and the belief that so much of what ails us is an effect of what “they’re teaching” on campus, is that so many of their own attended Ivy League schools themselves. Tom Cotton attended Harvard and Harvard Law, Ted Cruz went to
Dear Conservatives: the Universities Didn’t Do It, Neither Did Hollywood Read More »
“We are living in a moment of existential dread and alienation caused by the savagery of social media, the ugliness of our politics, the AI takeover, our melting planet, a winner-take-all economy…” Those are the words of Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. He doesn’t lack for certitude. Most of us can’t develop a read of the
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“Without broader hiring reforms, proto right-wing employees will continue to control big business. Several states are trying to dictate what conservative executives should and shouldn’t instruct employees about, but these efforts similarly don’t reach the core of big business’s sickness – the commercial monopoly of right-wing thought that guarantees its continued malignancy.” It’s bothersome,
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