Watch a discussion with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow and Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) at the NRI Ideas Summit in Washington, D.C., April 30, 2015:
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Character Is Destiny
For a very long time now, I have been predicting that the Trump presidency will end poorly because character is destiny. I’ve said it so often, I occasionally need to be reminded that I didn’t coin the phrase. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus did when he observed “ethos anthropoi daimon,” most often ...
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After 19 months, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has charged a number of targets with almost every conceivable sin -- except collusion with Russia to throw an election. Yet suspicion of collusion was the reason that Mueller was appointed in the first place.
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Unlike my colleagues, I’ve been a bemused spectator during this week’s Syria follies. As readers of these columns know (see, e.g., here, here, here, here, and here), I believe the United States has less interest in Syria than in the persistence of drought in Burkina Faso. That is why I was a steadfast ...
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