‘We Can’t Afford It’
Conservatives often say: “Nice idea, but we can’t afford it.” Reality is closer to the opposite: We can afford it, but it's a terrible idea for other reasons.
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Irreducible Perplexity
Evolution is not one of those cases in which there are no wrong answers.
One Way to Do Brexit: Unilateral Free Trade
When the English rescinded the Corn Laws in the mid-19th century, it was not part of a broad & reciprocal agreement with their grain-producing trade partners.
David Webb’s White Privilege
For the Left, public discourse is Lord of the Flies, and victimhood is the conch.
Pelosi Should Cancel the State of the Union Pageant
If the United States wishes to halt its slide into desultory monarchy, then Congress is going to have to assert its powers and privileges.
Today In: They Really Mean It
Writing in Slate, Mark Joseph Stern is surprised to learn that the textualists on the Supreme Court are . . . textualists.
The Politics of Snobbery, and Its Inverse
The Democrats’ excessive pseudo-refinement is a tendency that will eat itself soon enough. But the Republicans have a different problem.
‘Markets Exist To Serve People’
The sentence 'Markets exist to serve people' does not really mean anything.
Hissy Fits
The Nation is a bit less predictable than the median hysterical lefty in one way: its skepticism regarding Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.
‘Markets Exist To Serve People’
Markets are made up of people interacting with other people. They don’t exist to serve turnips or interstellar dust or sublimity. Just people.