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Announcement by , November 30, 2018

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Workingmen and Reformers

Feature Article by , December 18, 2018

Top Stories of the Year: #4 Yesterday, I concluded that genuine political reforms have to be pursued almost in secret, outside of normal partisan lines. Actual activity certainly does not correlate with the degree of press coverage. The biggest non-story of the year, in that regard, was gun control. Shooting incidents are rare and—contrary to […]

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Into the Grey Areas

Feature Article by , December 17, 2018

Top Stories of the Year, #5 It’s time to count down the top five stories of the year, looking back at the big events of 2018 and reviewing my coverage of them. Last year, one of the top stories was the Great Sexual Harassment Awakening, which was rapidly turning into the Great Sexual Harassment panic. […]

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The War on the Brains of the Right

Commentary by , December 15, 2018

Five Things You Need to Read Today 1. The War on the Brains of the Right At the very beginning of the Trump phenomenon, I warned about a war on the brains of the right. Along with many friends and colleagues, I have found it grimly amusing to find myself dismissed as an “establishment” “elitist” […]

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Salon of the Refused, Episode 6

Announcement by , December 14, 2018

Episode 6 of my video and podcast series, Salon of the Refused, is now available. I talk with Tom Nichols, professor at the Harvard Extension School and author of The Death of Expertise, about the future of NeverTrump. The conversation includes: how Trump actually shifts power to “zombie” bureaucrats, Trump and Russia, and the key to […]

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Salon of the Refused, Episode 5

Commentary by , December 12, 2018

Episode 5 of my video and podcast series, Salon of the Refused, is now available. I talk with Tom Nichols, professor at the Naval War College and Harvard Extension School, about the “death of expertise.” The conversation includes: what happens when experts get it wrong, how both left and right have contributed to contempt for expertise, and […]

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The Psycho-Epistemology of Pathological Altruism

Commentary by , December 11, 2018

Five Things You Need to Read Today 1. The Psycho-Epistemology of Pathological Altruism By now, we all know what to expect on college campuses, right? Here’s the latest: an Indian-American comedian and former Saturday Night Live writer was shooed off the stage at Columbia University—they literally cut off his microphone—for telling jokes that were offensive […]

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Taxing Us into Submission

Feature Article by , December 7, 2018

So now we know how the “Progressives” want to pay for their fantasy slate of big-government programs: they are going to tax the hell out of the middle class. This was pretty obvious to anyone on the right who has been observing their claims and tallying up the trillions in extra spending the left has […]

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Salon of the Refused, Episode 4

Announcement by , December 4, 2018

Episode 4 of my video and podcast series, Salon of the Refused, is now available. I talk to Scott Lincicome about President Trump’s trade war. The conversation includes: why tariff power was delegated to the president, how trade changes jobs instead of taking them away, and how Flashdance and Bruce Springsteen explain Donald Trump’s trade policy. […]

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Fast Times at Ben Trovato High

Commentary by , December 4, 2018

Five Things You Need to Read Today 1. Let No More Be Heard of Confidence in Man I speculated a while back that the legal problems of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, might come back to haunt the president–and lead to “The Clinton Impeachment Rerun We Didn’t Want But Probably Deserve.” It looks […]

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Holiday Gift Subscriptions

Announcement by , November 30, 2018

The Tracinski Letter makes a great Christmas gift. Select one of the options below, enter the gift recipient’s name and e-mail address, and click the button to purchase. I’ll add the recipients to the list and make sure they get a notice of the gift. One Year Gift Subscription $73.10 (15% off regular rate of […]

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