February 26, 2021

Was Rush Limbaugh Done with Conservatism?

In a trail of observations that began with Trump's campaign in 2015 and peaked during the last year of his life, the late Rush Limbaugh, as he was in and out of the studio battling cancer, was on a path to the previously unthinkable.  H...

December 30, 2018

The Weekly Standard: Like a really good TV show

A brutal fact of professional politics is that every endeavor ends at some point.  Elections have ripple effects that kill off careers, think-tanks, lobbying outfits, etc.  This extends to magazines, and the Weekly Stand...

December 10, 2013

Janet Yellen and the Phillips Curve

Unlike bell-bottoms and AstroTurf, the Phillips curve is a fad from the 1970s that never really went away. With the Senate facing a vote after the Thanksgiving recess on Janet Yellen, a devotee of the theory, to lead the Federal Reserve, the Phillips...