Trump’s Impeachment and the Varieties of Presidential Corruption
Official corruption is intolerable regardless of its direct consequences.
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Re: What They’re Not Telling You about the Infamous ‘Shoot Them’ Trump Rally
Rich’s post asserts nothing that I disagree with but nonetheless omits what I think it is most important to say.
‘Let Them Stay’
Our former intern Christian Alejandro Gonzalez has a piece at The Weekly Standard on the Trump administration’s decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status from hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals ...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Understanding the decisions made leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan will lead to further clarity when facing difficult decisions on modern battlefields.
‘Deleted’ Families and the Instrumentalization of Human Beings
The gist of two reports were that that the administration issued its family-separation policy with approximately no idea how it would eventually put the families back together.
How Do You Spot a Demagogue?
One way, I would suggest, is that he uses language to manipulate people into defining their patriotism in terms of him and his political agenda rather than in terms of ...
Michael Potemra’s Two Themes: Religious Pluralism and Human-Rights Libertarianism
I am slow to eulogize our late literary editor Michael Potemra, of whose death we learned last week, but I wanted to add a few memories to those my colleagues ...
Theory and Practice in the Time of Trump
Writing earlier this week, Dan McLaughlin reminded us that American conservatism is both “ideas and philosophy” and “a political movement in practice” and applied the lesson to the presidency of ...
Founding Philosopher
Jason Lee Steorts reviews Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty, by D. C. Schindler.
Re: DACA or DACA-Plus?
Earlier this week, Mark Krikorian continued our disagreement about the scope of the Trump administration’s proposed “Dreamer” amnesty. I thank him for his detailed reply but am unmoved by it.
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