Year: 2016

Shall We Choose Poison?

The National Review has just come out with an entire issue dedicated to convincing Republicans not to nominate Donald Trump to be their presidential candidate. It wasn’t a painless decision. It cost them the right to...

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reparation?

Let’s say a Police Department arrests 50 people, holds them for 10 years without a charge, beats them a bit, and eventually the folks are let go.  The Police do not even to bother to deny that the folks committed no...

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The Hollow Sanders Campaign

If you were following the 2007-08 Obama campaign closely, it was possible to get at least some outlines of what his administration might look like if he eventually won the nomination and the presidency. It was a fair bet that...

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How America Gets Assimilation (Mostly) Right

June Shih, a former Clinton administration speechwriter and senior advisor at the State Department, has a great review in our January/February issue of the magazine. As a second generation immigrant from Taiwan who grew up in...

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