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Abolish the National Endowment for the Arts

Although the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2016 cost of $148 million was less than one-hundredth of 1 percent of the federal budget, attempting to abolish the NEA is a fight worth having, never mind the certain futility of the fight.LetĢƵ pretend, counterfactually, that the NEA no longer ...

The liberals who loved eugenics

The progressive mob that disrupted Charles MurrayĢƵ appearance last week at Middlebury College was protesting a 1994 book read by few if any of the protesters. Some of them denounced “eugenics,” thereby demonstrating an interesting ignorance: Eugenics — controlled breeding to improve ...

Fixing the economy will be hard

The dyspeptic Henry Adams was not nice but not wrong when he described what now is named the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, as an “architectural infant asylum.”The granite pile, which once housed the State, War and Navy departments, was, Harry S. Truman ...

Trump owes much to Democrats

At their post-Civil War apogee, 19th-century Republicans were the party of activist government, using protectionism to pick commercial winners and promising wondrous benefits from governmentĢƵ deft interventions in economic life.Today, a Republican administration promises that wisely wielded ...

Trump sides with predators

The technique has been called (by this columnist) “immunity through profusion.” By keeping the molten lava of falsehoods flowing, the volcano that is Donald Trump can inundate the public and overwhelm his auditors’ capacity to produce a comparable flow of corrections. This technique was ...

Can Gorsuch be better than Scalia?

With an asperity born of exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, “If you want aspirations, you can read the Declaration of Independence,” but “there is no such philosophizing in our Constitution,” which is “a practical and pragmatic charter of government.”Scalia was wrong, ...