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  • Nationalism in America is a Farce that Will End in Tragedy

    Nationalism in America is a Farce that Will End in Tragedy0

    Karl Marx famously began The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by observing that Hegel “remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. Hegel, and by implication Marx, was wrong. The uniqueness of circumstance and the individuality of actor mean that history does not, and cannot, repeat itself. But

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  • National School Board Association Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents

    National School Board Association Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents1

    Parental rights in education is not domestic terrorism. Any organization that says otherwise should have no influence over public policy whatsoever. And yet, in a first draft of a letter to President Joe Biden, the National School Boards Association requested the Army National Guard and military police to monitor parents in school board meetings. Why? Because parents

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  • National Review Errs on Tax Cuts

    National Review Errs on Tax Cuts0

    National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru has a new article, “The Tax Cut Doesn’t ‘Tilt Toward the Middle Class.” The piece apparently responds to commentary by Veronique de Rugy and me about the effects of the GOP tax plan. Ramesh says: According to the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), households making between $20,000 and $30,000 pay 0.7

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  • National Protectionism vs. National Libertarianism

    National Protectionism vs. National Libertarianism2

    National Conservatism is one of the most interesting political movements on the scene today. Though the principles animating it—a concern for national traditions, peoples, and cultures—are time-tested, modern conservatives have downplayed them in pursuit of a rules-based international order. As that order breaks down, nationalism has re-emerged as a core area of conservative focus. In

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  • National Geographic: Jesus Not an Influential Figure of the Ancient World

    National Geographic: Jesus Not an Influential Figure of the Ancient World1

    In a dumbed-down culture we are often happy to take any scraps of intellectual comfort we can find. In such an impoverished climate, a magazine like National Geographic takes on almost iconic significance. We are tempted to see it as a last bastion of intellectual engagement, offering crumbs of comfort in the age of the

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  • National Debt: We’re Probably Screwed

    National Debt: We’re Probably Screwed0

    • September 3, 2015

    According to the United States Treasury, the total national debt is $18.2 trillion. The annual, average interest rate on the debt as of July of 2015 is 2.3%, down from 2.4% in July of 2014. Here’s why that’s a problem. Low interest rates mean low carrying costs for debt. If the interest rate is 10%,

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