The Political ForumJun 29, 20187 min readImmigration, Bureaucracy, and DehumanizationOver the course of the last couple of weeks, the opposition to President Trump has morphed into opposition to the entire federal...
The Political ForumJun 8, 20186 min readWe'll Take You with Us, Swim or DrownOur story today opens in a prison cell in Italy where a sickly, diminutive, brilliant, thirty-six-year-old fellow named Antonio Gramsci...
The Political ForumApr 11, 20183 min readOrwell, Trump, and "Nazis"In an essay entitled "Politics and the English Language," written in 1946, George Orwell argued that political disorder was inevitably...
The Political ForumMar 26, 20185 min readMcCabe and Mueller: Heroes or Villains?History and literature are replete with examples of men and women who bravely risked their lives and their reputations for a cause that...
The Political ForumMar 12, 20187 min readGlobalization, Part ILast week, when Gary Cohn resigned as head of the National Economic Council, President Trump light-heartedly described him as a...
The Political ForumMar 4, 20183 min readFree Trade, Fair Trade, Corrupt TradeFor almost two decades now, we have been writing that corruption is a danger to the global order, and especially to global trade....
The Political ForumFeb 14, 20183 min readThe Road to Serfdom Revisited.If Jean-Jacque Rousseau is the patron saint of American liberals, which is a commonly held belief among educated conservatives, then we...
The Political ForumFeb 11, 20182 min readDo Deficits Matter?Thirty-five years ago, in the summer of 1982, Edwin Dale, the senior spokesman for Reagan’s OMB Director David Stockman and well-known...