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We no longer have a firm grasp of the obvious. Louise Perry writes (paywall) in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) weekend edition,

Falling birthrates are a mystery

Really? A mystery to whom? Perry writes,

There’s no ...

So goes, we hope to God, no other state. Currently there are two big election campaigns going on in the formerly prosperous state of California. The first is for Governor, where Democrats are aghast at the reality that Republican Steve Hilton may very well win. The Democrats’ problem is that, as so often is the case, notwithstanding their claims to overwhelming intellectual s...

Two weeks ago I gave a talk at a symposium on anti-Semitism on the right in New York. One of those who attended the symposium was Dr. Randall Bock. Dr. Bock has a podcast and a Substack. After the symposium, he asked me to be a guest on his podcast, to...

Price fixing is a terrible idea, pretty much always and everywhere. That goes for fixing the price of labor as much as anything else. This old lesson is now being re-learned in Britain: Rishi Sunak: What I got wro...

This site has now been around for 24 years. In Internet time, we are like Mel Brooks’s 2000 Year Old Man. Borrowing from and supplementing previous anniversary posts, I want to highlight themes that continue to resonate with me. As these reflections have grown over the years, they have come to rival