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In Defense of Trump’s Deal with Carrier 0
- Economics
- December 5, 2016
Donald Trump hasn’t yet made the move from Trump Tower to America’s most expensive public housing, but he was able to come through with one campaign promise this week by announcing a deal with Indiana-based Carrier Air Conditioning that will keep almost 1,000 jobs in the state. As reported, the deal seems largely focused on
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Colleges Offer ‘Puppy Therapy’ to Stressed Students 0
- Culture
- December 5, 2016
Ah, finals week! It’s full of frantic studying, all-nighters, and 20-page papers whose outlines, rough drafts, and final copies get written in record time. Naturally, that work can cause an inordinate amount of stress, and universities are finally being sensitive enough to help students cope with it. According to Campus Reform, the following stress-coping techniques
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Why School Choice Won’t Fix Education 0
- Western Civilization
- December 5, 2016
President-Elect Donald Trump has announced Betsy DeVos as his choice to head the U.S. Department of Education. The pick is a clear signal that the Trump administration is intent on pursuing school choice, a fact that the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the self-interested educational establishment would seem to confirm. But it is important
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Hollywood’s Disgraceful Hero-Worship of Castro 0
- Culture
- December 2, 2016
Hollywood romanticizes revolutionaries, seeing them as noble, rugged individuals with towering passion and idealism who fight and risk their lives to make the world a better place. Sometimes that view is deserved. But more often than not, given Hollywood’s left-leaning partisanship, it elevates brutal dictators to the status of misunderstood heroes. Thus it’s no surprise that
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The Bureaucracy Is Now More Powerful Than Congress 0
- Education
- December 2, 2016
Who creates federal laws? Civics books say it is Congress, but the real answer today may be the executive branch. Earlier this year, James Gattuso and Diane Katz reported that just the 229 major regulations issued since 2009 added over $100 billion in annual costs (according to the regulatory agencies), $22 billion coming in 2015. With estimates of the
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Why Donald Trump Should Heed Plato on Foreign Policy 0
- History
- December 2, 2016
Looking ahead to what will be the most defining feature of the Trump administration, Pat Buchanan has noted that it is “Time for a Trump Doctrine.” With Hillary Clinton’s defeat, the nation has the opportunity to resolve the tension between the Obama Doctrine (that the U.S. is not responsible for the management of the Middle
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