NR PLUS Magazine Founders of the Frontier: David McCullough Discovers Ohio’s Puritan Pioneers By John Daniel Davidson July 11, 2019 A review of The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, by David McCullough.
NR PLUS Magazine The Failures of a President By John Daniel Davidson April 12, 2018 John Daniel Davidson reviews The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made, by Patricia O’Toole.
Politics & Policy Greg Abbott’s Big Gamble By John Daniel Davidson July 25, 2017 If Abbott can get his fractious Republicans to back his agenda, he’ll take up the mantle of Rick Perry as a reform-minded Texas governor.
NR PLUS Magazine A Failed Urbanism By John Daniel Davidson May 15, 2017 A review of The New Urban Crisis, by Richard Florida.
NR PLUS Magazine The Seduction of Benedict Arnold By John Daniel Davidson August 15, 2016 Just about the only thing most Americans know about Benedict Arnold is that he was a traitor. Nathaniel Philbrick changes that.
Culture The Seduction of Benedict Arnold By John Daniel Davidson August 13, 2016 The American Revolution was anything but tidy, and the war was unlike any previous military conflict.
Politics & Policy Obamacare’s Crony-Bureaucracy Problem By John Daniel Davidson March 21, 2016 Obamacare’s supposedly advisory councils are anything but, and amount to a crony bureaucracy.
Politics & Policy Beware Feds Bearing Gifts By Mario Loyola & John Daniel Davidson March 4, 2016 Obamacare’s intermingling of federal and state finances lets the federal government coerce states into doing things they don’t want to do.
Politics & Policy A Medicaid Expansion Offer the States Should Refuse By John Daniel Davidson January 21, 2016 Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion may sound like like a good deal, but governors and state legislators should resist it.
Politics & Policy A New Lawsuit from Texas Sues the Government over Obamacare By John Daniel Davidson October 29, 2015 Last week, Texas filed a lawsuit against the federal government — again. This time, over a regulation that forces states to pay an Obamacare tax on Medicaid managed-care plans. If ...