We already knew that the budget deficit will hit a record-breaking $3.3 trillion this year as the federal government continues to run up debt in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Yet a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that we aren’t just facing a short-term spike in deficits. We’re on an
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The Black Lives Matter organizations that swiftly captured the nation’s attention have expeditiously and quietly been softening their rhetoric and removing the most un-American statements from their websites. This is because the millions poised to agree with the slogan Black Lives Matter began distancing themselves from these organizations as their true intentions came to light.
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A friend of mine owns a convenience store in suburban Philadelphia. Refusing to wear a mask, he allows his customers to decide whether or not they want to do the same. Recently, a woman entered his store claiming to be from the health department. She demanded that everyone wear a mask, that he and his
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A reader of Intellectual Takeout, bookbinder and Tennessean Ed Stansell, recently shared these thoughts in an email: I was recently joking with a friend about his efforts not paying off. I asked him why he was having difficulties considering white privilege. His reply was ‘I’m afraid my privilege doesn’t match my whiteness.’ You may have had
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“Burn it all down.” “Civility is dead.” That is how leading political voices have been responding to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at age 87 since it was announced on Friday. Others have voiced concern that America’s social fabric – already frayed by the presidential election, the pandemic, the lockdowns, and the riots – may
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Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture typically features a column called “What the Editors Are Reading.” In September’s issue, corresponding editor William Murchison looks at journalist Walter Lippmann’s Essays in the Public Philosophy, first published in 1955. There Lippmann wrote, “If what is good, what is right, what is true, is only what the individual ‘chooses’ to
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