“California in the 21st century [has been] possibly the most pathetic episode of progressive governance in the last 50 years.” — Jonah Goldberg, the “G-File” at The Dispatch It was just a couple weeks ago that I wrote an intro about The Dispatch newsletters before sharing an excerpt from an Alex Trembath article at Dispatch […]
“As many energy analysts have been warning for years, even impressively declining solar and wind costs will not enable renewables to meet all or even most of the electricity demand facing modern power grids.” — Alex Trembath, Dispatch Energy As I have stated before, The Dispatch newsletters are not exactly my favorites, since I often […]
Some people love unions, some people hate them, and others just tolerate them as an unavoidable reality in their lives. Fortunately, I’ve never been pressured into joining a labor union nor had to deal with one from the management side. For a long time I just assumed that doing so was pretty much as we […]
“[This] announcement continues to build on the department’s promise to streamline federal education functions and cut red tape.” — Madison Marino Doan and Jonathan Butcher, The Heritage Foundation A little over a year ago, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the end of the U.S. Dept. of Education, which has existed only since […]
“Rent control is not only increasingly futile, but increasingly destructive the more severe it is, and the longer it remains in effect.” — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson As the new mayor of New York City, one of the several, ill-conceived campaign promises Zohran Mamdani will try to fulfill is rent-control “for all tenants […]
There is so much negative news out there, including in-fighting among politicians that are supposedly “on the same side”. President Trump is, of course, the subject of much of the complaints and controversy. But, instead of going that direction myself, I decided to post a reminder of some positive things that Trump accomplished in 2025. […]
“There are reasons to question whether authorities are telling us the truth. Doing so does not make you a conspiracy theorist. But abandoning truth and reason does.” — O. Alan Noble, Dispatch Faith The Dispatch newsletters are, I admit, not exactly my favorites. I often disagree with their takes on socio-political matters, or at least […]
This is my second blogpost excerpting from Henry Hazlitt’s modern classic, Economics in One Lesson. The topic, which followed shortly after that which I cited last time, is one that should be familiar to anyone with at least a smattering of reading in, or a lecture on, basic economics, regardless of which school of thought […]
“Many today claim that the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 (PCA) prohibits the use of the military in domestic affairs. But they completely misunderstand that law.” — Mackubin Thomas Owens, author and expert on national security affairs This past week I read a very good article by Mackubin Thomas Owens in Hillsdale’s Imprimis newsletter. I […]
“Henry Hazlitt’s explanation of how a price system works is a true classic: timeless, correct, painlessly instructive.” — Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences Economics in One Lesson is the title of a book by Henry Hazlitt, who some consider to be “arguably the greatest economic journalist of the 20th century.” Though largely self-taught, […]
