By Thomas Sowell Aug. 22, 2024 4:04 pm ET Mr. Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He’s 94. One of the main anchors in modern Conservatism. You need to know this man. I’ve followed him since college, in the…
Category: Elections
L’etat C’est Moi, the Second Attempt of the Rise of a Genuine Royal Class in America
First Bill Clinton, then Obama and then another Clinton. A dynasty of royals, not a regular political dynasty, mind you, but genuinely royals-of-the-mind, is now in launch mode in American politics….all premised on that singular comment by Louis XIV in…
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, by Vassar
Meet Jack Goldfarb, He was God-Father to my first wife. In 1933 a Hungarian Jew got off the boat at Ellis Island, looking for a place to start a knitwear cut- and-sew operation. His name was Jack Goldfarb and he…
Cracking Open the 2024 Election Door a Few Months Early-Tracking the Trump Phenomenon
Normally, “election season” begins in January-February, while still in 2023. What happens in 2024, not just in Washington and Congress but inside those tiny little foxholes that millions of Americans first dug into their hearts and minds in 2010, beginning…
Battle of Athens (1946) Our only successful uprising since 1776
(I want to dedicate this film review to Lady Penguin and JadedByPolitics, old friends from the Obama days, and my early days of RedState.com. We didn’t use the term “influencer” in 2006, but it was clear there was an urge…