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Losing Abe: A Giant Passes At A Particularly Bad Time

In the late 1940s, when clever-sounding defenses of Soviet totalitarianism had overtaken certain fashionable political circles in Britain, George Orwell publicly addressed one leftist's soft spot for totalitarianism. He noted that the fellow did adamantly deny it. "Of course he does," Orwell wrote. "What would you expect him to do? A pickpocket does not go to the races with a label 'thief' on his lapel." Immediately after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel -- an invasion by some 5000 genocidal gunmen whose raison d'etre was genocide and who invaded precisely to attempt genocide -- ...

Drop the tariffs, Mr. President

Donald Trump is now an unpopular president. Some of this dissatisfaction is due to the war in Iran. Some of it springs from the unanticipated speed, chaos and perceived brutality of several of his administration's actions over the past year and a half. But a significant part of his political problem has a straightforward economic explanation: Everything feels expensive, and his tariffs are a major reason why. If the president wants to help himself and his party ahead of this year's midterm elections, the most effective thing he can do is eliminate the tariffs. The evidence in favor of ...

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A lesson in economics for AOC

I am not an economist, but I do have some personal experience with the principles of economics and the rules that allow especially Americans to prosper while becoming more self-reliant and less dependent on government. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), aka AOC, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, graduated from Boston University cum laude, and then returned to the Bronx and worked as a bartender and waitress to help her mother fight foreclosure of their home. Nothing wrong with that, but her life experience apparently has taught her little. In some recent comments she ...

The Steyer Smear

Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher. Roger Pielke Jr.'s research on climate and disaster policy wins awards and is cited by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "My views are entirely mainstream," says Pielke. "My work is cited by all three working groups of the IPCC. There's nothing contrarian." Both Steyer and Pielke agree that "greenhouse gases warm the climate," but Pielke's sin was saying, "it's not the apocalypse." Because of that, "the Center for American Progress decided to make me a target," he says. The ...