March 6, 2021

The U.S. Economy Is Rigged

Though the populist tide seems to have ebbed, it will rise again, and soon.  The problem that ignited populist sentiment in the first place, whether on the left or the right, remains: the country’s economic and financial system has failed ...

October 14, 2017

Affirmative Action: A Weapon of Class Warfare

Whatever the original, presumably high-minded intent of affirmative action (AA), the program has long since morphed into a weapon of class warfare. It neither benefits the underprivileged, as it claims, nor does it address the legacy of historical in...

August 24, 2017

Statue Wars

It would seem that the ongoing battle over monuments, street names, and the like occurs against a much broader backdrop than is implied by the rhetoric immediately surrounding it. Many who talk about erasing the memory of slaveholders really care les...

May 3, 2017

Crony Capitalism, American Style

With highway accidents, the greatest carnage always attracts the most onlookers. So, too, with the 2007-08 financial crisis and its aftermath. Each review of those events paints an increasingly ugly picture of crass cronyism. Two administrations, one...

February 8, 2017

Haunted by the Sins of 2008

While the angry left seems to get angrier by the day, America should make no mistake that working folk, the people who put Trump in office, remain angry, too. Their disgust with the establishment is clearly durable. It stretches at least as far back ...

November 4, 2016

More Power, Less Principle in the Culture Wars

Today’s culture wars have morphed radically from what they were only ten years ago. Then, they raged between two groups of citizens, those who wanted to protect traditional mores and values and those who wanted to replace them with what they be...