When I hear such arguments, I find my sympathies moving toward Obama; we should at least credit him with being smarter than this. I think his critics sometimes forget how much of his domestic and fore...
The progressives are right that there is no way Gates can spend $50 billion on himself. He can only eat three meals a day and wear one set of clothes at a time. Even his heirs can be provided for with...
The progressive pretense is that these people, who have created virtually nothing, are actually the real creators of the nation’s wealth.
The maxim, every man for himself, he writes, embraces the whole moral code of a free society. The harsh competition of capitalism, Fitzhugh says, benefits the few and the strong while crushing the man...
The full story, however, is told in Steve Inskeep’s recent book Jacksonland, which I will rely on for my subsequent account. Jackson managed national security affairs in a way that matched his interes...
The cover-up is the work of progressives in education and the media. The progressives are part of the Democratic team; they are, in fact, the ideologues of the party. They have been given a very speci...
Is this too harsh a verdict? I wouldn’t go so far as to say the Clintons don’t care about Haiti. Yet it seems clear that Haitian welfare is not their priority. Their priority is, well, themselves. The...
In the sixteenth century the Reformation introduced a new idea. This was the notion that knowledge is not simply the province of ecclesiastical institutions but that, especially when it comes to matte...
In the grim aftermath of World War II and the Stalinist purges, the term totalitarianism has become a bad word. But for progressives before the war, Jonah Goldberg points out, it was a good word. Tota...
In addition, the fascists adopted an economic policy that is closely parallel to, and in many respects identical with, today’s progressivism. Mussolini called this policy corporatism, but a more descr...
In November 2014 Hillary Clinton made some revealing comments about illegal immigrants while receiving a History Maker award from the New York Historical Society at the city’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel....
Imagine what Hillary would do with her power if she went from secretary of state to president of the United States! Previously she at least had to answer to Obama; now she would be a power unto hersel...
I am glad that the horrid Democrat, Jackson, will be replaced with a Republican heroine, Harriet Tubman, on the twenty-dollar bill in 2020. Trump, like Reagan, is a former Democrat, and I imagine his...
Hitler and Mussolini were indeed authoritarians, but it doesn’t follow that authoritarianism equals fascism or Nazism. Lenin and Stalin were authoritarian, but neither was a fascist. Many dictators—Fr...
Hillary rode her husband’s success to become first lady of Arkansas, then first lady of the United States. Then she won an easy race in liberal New York to become its junior senator. As a senator she...
Goldberg argues that fascism and communism, far from being opposites, are closely related historical competitors for the same constituents.
For nearly a century following the Civil War, the Republican Party made valiant efforts, often against near-impossible odds, to protect blacks from the Democratic onslaught and to secure their basic r...
Back to the Big Switch: the basic idea is that starting with the Civil Rights Movement, Democrats saw the light and became the good guys, while Republicans became the bad guys. What happened to all th...
As I was completing this book, I saw news reports quoting NASA chief Charles Bolden announcing that from now on the primary mission of America’s space agency would be to improve relations with the Mus...
The morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.