In a favorable review of David Stockman’s The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, a critic winds down with a sigh. Stockman’s prescriptions…
And the United States might pull out of its present funk as it did in a sudden twice during the past century: in the first years of World War II, and during the first Ronald Reagan administration.
For the past two decades, the United States wasted th…
Don’t call me a “declinist.” I really don’t believe the United States—or Western civilization, more generally—is in some kind of gradual, inexorable decline.
But that’s not because I am one of those incorrigible optimists who agree wi…
If I were Barack Obama, I’d think twice about presiding over this irresolvable muddle of engineered swindles, sinking prospects, booby-trapped budgets, and played-out lies for another term. Let Hillary step in and try to keep this leaky Flying Dutch…
A number of articles I find prescient, first off good old AEP, whom I would paraphrase thusly:
“Politicians, politicians everywhere, and not a statesmen to be found.”
(to be chanted to the rhythm of The Ancient Mariner.)
If they couldn’t do it in 194…
