Washington’s Inflation Hysteria Is Fueled by Corporate Greed
I first heard about the idea of a “reserve army of the unemployed” when I was in college. Advanced by Karl Marx in chapter 25 of Capital: Volume I, the theory is that it is in the interest of...
View ArticleNo One Is Going to Stop Tucker Carlson
On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson told his millions of viewers that public health officials were lying to them about the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. Noting that the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson...
View ArticleLet Other Countries Copy the Covid Vaccines
There’s one big thing the Biden administration could do to beat back the global pandemic: urge the World Trade Organization to waive patent protections on Covid-19 vaccines. To date, it hasn’t done...
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Whither the Religious Left?
No one who watched the inauguration of Joe Biden could have missed that he was a Roman Catholic. Before the day’s public ceremonies, he attended a private Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the...
View ArticleJoe Biden Isn’t Close to Being a Historic President Yet
Although we’re still less than three months into the Biden administration, there’s already an eagerness all around to characterize and define his presidency. This is understandable on a psychological...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Could Get Dragged Into the Cancel Culture Wars
The United States has one national Constitution and one national Bill of Rights. But sometimes it feels like this country has two First Amendments. There is the one that was written down in the late...
View ArticleBernie Madoff Lives!
What also must be known about Bernie Madoff, who died on Wednesday at the age of 82, is that prior to the revelation in December 2008 that he had been running the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, he was,...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Court-Packing Plan Doesn’t Make Any Sense
You can tell that House and Senate Democrats are serious about court-packing by the new bill’s name: the Judiciary Act of 2021. They didn’t burden it with an insufferable acronym, like the Judicial...
View ArticleAndrew Yang, Celebrity Politician
Andrew Yang was, briefly, a corporate attorney, then an executive at a test preparation company, then the founder of a nonprofit that encourages entrepreneurship. (It has a mixed record.) He ran for...
View ArticleRaoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes Insists on Telling What Really Happened
Raoul Peck’s 2014 drama, Murder in Pacot, is a sweaty, outdoor masterpiece. It is set amid the ruins of a stylish, modern home in the chaotic days after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; the...
View ArticleThe Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War
It is very likely that no work of popular history has ever informed an American president’s actions in a crisis as much as The Guns of August did in the fall of 1962. Published that spring, Barbara W....
View ArticleBring Covid Vaccines Door-to-Door
A few weeks ago, I learned I’d qualified for a Covid-19 vaccine. I began devoting my days to shot chasing. I joined local vaccine-hunting groups on Facebook, where members reported driving all over the...
View ArticleThe Problem With Trusting “the Science”
“The good thing about Science,” TV science evangelist and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted in 2013, “is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” Protesters at the “March for Science”...
View ArticleBig Business Is a Reliable Friend of the Republican Party
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published a remarkable editorial framed as a breakup letter with corporate America. “We have supported big business, including Amazon and Exxon, against the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Has a Very Big Abandoned Oil Well Problem
On Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing to address an issue that’s been plaguing communities from West Virginia to New Mexico for decades: abandoned and...
View ArticleMedical Risk Is Never Shared Equally. Our Health Care System Is Built to...
When the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine was temporarily paused after six people got blood clots postvaccination, one line of response was frustration that six out of around seven million people...
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The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
In the summer of 2007, Thomas Gokey had just graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he was thinking about how much his degree had cost him. His diploma was a simple piece of...
View ArticleWhen Richard Wright Broke With the Communists
On a Friday in early June 1941, Richard Wright addressed the opening session of the Congress in Defense of Culture in New York City. “Some of you may wonder why a writer, at a congress of writers,...
View ArticleAnother Reason to Nationalize Big Oil
What gets left behind when a major oil company opts to go net-zero? Just because greenhouse gas emissions move off a corporate balance sheet doesn’t mean they disappear. That’s the upshot of a lengthy...
View ArticleSet Us Free From Outdoor Mask Mandates!
As coronavirus cases ticked up in early November, something utterly bizarre happened in Massachusetts: In light of those rising numbers, Governor Charlie Baker issued a rule mandating that people would...
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