Episode 15: Our Mediocre Media
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The New York Times Runs a Sloppy, Specious Democratic Hit on Brett Kavanaugh
What does the word “primarily” mean? If you look it up in a dictionary, the definition is plain enough. Merriam-Webster says it means “for the most part.” Dictionary.com’s definition is even more helpful, providing a string of synonyms: “essentially; mostly; chiefly; principally.”
Why does this ...
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Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has one-upped socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She proposes to nationalize every major business in the United States of America. If successful, it would constitute the largest seizure of private property in human history.
Warren’s proposal is ...
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Road Trip
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
Dear Reader (Especially future contributors to my GoFundMe page),
I am currently in the passenger seat of our family fun mobile, passing mile marker ...
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The Maker of Middle-earth, in Gorgeous Detail
Oxford, England — After five months of ferocious and futile slaughter in “the Great War,” an Oxford undergraduate — knowing his deployment to the Western Front was inevitable — used his Christmas break in 1914 to cultivate his imagination. Twenty-two-year-old J. R. R. Tolkien began writing “The Story ...
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Answering my Critics
My post on Elizabeth Warren’s cynical/bonkers proposal to effectively nationalize every American firm with revenue of $1 billion or more has met with predictable criticism. I will address two points here.
One, some have complained about the use of the word “expropriation,” or more broadly about ...
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Yes, Revoking John Brennan’s Security Clearance Raises Constitutional Concerns
Let’s begin with two assertions that should, at least, be relatively uncontroversial. First, Article II of the United States Constitution grants the president broad authority to defend the nation as commander in chief of its armed forces. Second, that authority is not so broad as to always override individual ...
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