In my latest Epoch Times column I say there’s a lot more sense in certain calls to “Defund the police” than you might think or than some advocates exhibit.
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.