In my latest Mercatornet column I say people should be sad and compassionate not vindictive over racism and riots in the United States and elsewhere.

“The expression [“the Show Me State”] was coined as an insult by outsiders and was meant to suggest that Missourians were so stupid that they had to be shown how to do everything. The state’s inhabitants, however, contrarily took it as a compliment, persuading themselves that it implied a certain shrewd caution on their part.”

Bill Bryson Made in America

“James J. Hill’s phrase ‘the cost of high living’...”

Robert H. Wiebe, Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement.

“what William James charitably called ‘earnest and helpless minds.’”

Daniel Boorstin The Genius of American Politics

In my latest Epoch Times column I say one lesson of COVID-19 is that it was a serious if predictable mistake to think appeasing the Communist Party of China would tame it.

In my latest Epoch Times column I ask why after all its horrors. misdeeds and lies, most recently the Chinese government deliberately hiding the COVID-19 outbreak from the world while it spread, people including in our government still take a rosy view of communism.

“William James used to say that there was not much difference between one man and another but that the little difference there was was of great importance.”

Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition (author's 1967 Preface)