The 94th Academy Awards ceremony on March 27 saw misunderstanding erupt into an acrimonious conflict: The battle of the ghosts of Reitman, Reagan, Ramis, and Roosevelt.…
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She Did Her Job: A Republican Senator’s Case Against Ketanji Brown Jackson
Facing questions during her confirmation hearing before the US Senate on March 22, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson caught what may be the strangest sort of flak I’ve seen in one of these circuses.…
Daylight Saving Time: Finally, Some Government Action I Can Get Behind
If my picture appeared in the dictionary next to a word, that word would likely be “anti-government.” Or perhaps “pro-gridlock.” I don’t like government much, and I’m happier when it’s not getting anything done.…
Joel Schlosberg: Inflation Whips Labor
Jacobin‘s Seth Ackerman tells us that “Higher Inflation Doesn’t Reduce Real Wages” (February 22) since it “can only be sustained over time if the demand for labor is strong enough, relative to the supply, to force employers to continually bid up wages.”…
Thomas Knapp: ‘Language’ Arguments Against Immigration Freedom are a Tower of Babble
When debating immigration policy with people who have deluded themselves into believing that it’s any of their business where other people choose to live or work, I run into a lot of bad arguments.…
Thomas Knapp: It’s Time to Take the Racism Out of Redistricting
Every ten years, based on the results of the decennial US census, state legislatures redraw their US House districts. Some states gain seats, some lose seats, still others go through internal population shifts that require reorganization.…
Joel Schlosberg: You Can’t Have the State Highway Your Way
The Empire Center’s James Hanley tells readers of The Wall Street Journal that “anyone who wants to pay more to go green should have that choice” (“Congratulations, You’ve Won a Higher Electric Bill!,”…
Thomas Knapp: The Remedy to be Applied in Neil Young v. Joe Rogan
“They can have Neil Young or [Joe] Rogan. Not Both.” Thus the ultimatum from legendary musician Young, over his concerns with what he deems “misinformation” on the subject of COVID-19 vaccines, to streaming service Spotify.…
Thomas Knapp: The Choice in ‘School Choice’ is Mostly Government’s, Not Yours
Now in its second decade, National School Choice Week (observed January 23-29 this year) concentrates that movement’s steady, decades-long drumbeat into a few days of all-out advocacy.…









