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What Opening Day Reveals About America
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (798+ words) We say that civic life is fraying. We point to distrust, fragmentation, and the steady decline of shared experience in American culture. Much of that is true. But every so often, something cuts against the trend'not as theory, but as…...
Students Learn to Critique. But Who Teaches Them What to Admire?
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (766+ words) American universities are very good at teaching students how to analyze. They are less explicit about teaching them how to recognize excellence. That distinction matters. Students today are trained to interrogate institutions, examine structures of power, and, at their best,…...
For All Mankind," for Real
23+ hour, 11+ min ago (623+ words) My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in the USA and around the world: As Ronald D. Moore, the show's creator (and of the 2000s'Battlestar Galactica)'told me'in a 2020 interview: The show I wanted to do was the space program that…...
The End of Schr'dinger's Ayatollah?
22+ hour, 39+ min ago (307+ words) His Clerical Rank Did Not Qualify Mojtaba to Be Supreme Leader, but the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Did Not Care In the opening salvo of the Israel and U. S. attack on Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei perished. The Iranian leadership convinced…...
Discussing the Iran Ceasefire: Rubin on C-SPAN
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (84+ words) Senior Fellow Michael Rubin joins C-SPAN to discuss the announced ceasefire. The accusation of war crimes, now'accepted'as fact by the'New York Times'among others, is ignorant, hypocritical, and overblown. BY Michael Rubin ON 8 Apr 26 The Biggest Intelligence Failure of the Iran…...
Steve Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Outlook of Dollar Dominance
19+ hour, 18+ min ago (141+ words) American Enterprise Institute - AEI Steve Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Outlook of Dollar Dominance Are termites eating at the dollar dominance foundation? Steve Kamin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was previously the director of…...
AI's Job Ledger Has Two Columns
20+ hour, 34+ min ago (282+ words) The long-running divide has been less about direction than about timing and scale. How quickly will firms adopt AI in a deep, economy-wide way? And will the resulting disruption resemble past technological transitions or something more abrupt? Economists have generally…...
The Trump Administration's Anti-Waste in Health Care Campaign
20+ hour, 40+ min ago (270+ words) The Trump administration is attacking waste in these programs from multiple angles. To curb abuses in Medicaid, it has announced special investigations into four states (California, Maine, Minnesota, and New York) and'then followed that up by initiating a combined Medicare-Medicaid…...
We've Seen Worse'And Better
21+ hour, 35+ min ago (376+ words) What American history teaches about hope, agency, and democratic renewal. As I told Micah, however bad things might seem at a given point in time, "I'm not'Bob Moses'riding around in the dark of night in Amite County, Mississippi, trying to…...
Trump Is Burning Every Bridge America Had Left
21+ hour, 56+ min ago (780+ words) It is among the most familiar patterns of the Trump era. First, the president says or does something weird, rude or otherwise norm-defying. Some elected Republicans object, and the response from Trump and his minions is to shoot the messenger....