Although the National Endowment for the Arts鈥� 2016 cost of $148 million was less than one-hundredth of 1 percent of the federal budget, attempting to abolish the NEA is a fight worth having, never mind the certain futility of the fight.Let鈥檚 pretend, counterfactually, that the NEA no longer ...
The progressive mob that disrupted Charles Murray鈥檚 appearance last week at Middlebury College was protesting a 1994 book read by few if any of the protesters. Some of them denounced 鈥渆ugenics,鈥� thereby demonstrating an interesting ignorance: Eugenics 鈥� controlled breeding to improve ...
The dyspeptic Henry Adams was not nice but not wrong when he described what now is named the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, as an 鈥渁rchitectural infant asylum.鈥漈he granite pile, which once housed the State, War and Navy departments, was, Harry S. Truman ...
At their post-Civil War apogee, 19th-century Republicans were the party of activist government, using protectionism to pick commercial winners and promising wondrous benefits from government鈥檚 deft interventions in economic life.Today, a Republican administration promises that wisely wielded ...
The technique has been called (by this columnist) 鈥渋mmunity through profusion.鈥� By keeping the molten lava of falsehoods flowing, the volcano that is Donald Trump can inundate the public and overwhelm his auditors鈥� capacity to produce a comparable flow of corrections. This technique was ...
With an asperity born of exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, 鈥淚f you want aspirations, you can read the Declaration of Independence,鈥� but 鈥渢here is no such philosophizing in our Constitution,鈥� which is 鈥渁 practical and pragmatic charter of government.鈥漇calia was wrong, ...