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Your plane landed safely — thank the bureaucrats at the FAA
A faddish phrase on the right is something called “the administrative state,” which refers to the federal workforce deputized by Congress to craft and enforce rules over the environment, banking, health care, product safety, mass communications, the power grid, etc. A recent profile of the Claremont Institute — which has the unenviable task of stitching together an […]
The pandemic has shown the flaws of American individualism
The lone explorer on the trail, an inventor in her garage creating something cool, a rock star on the stage alone under a spotlight. Across time, these archetypal American heroes each eschews the crowd and its stifling conventions and sets out to chart her own path. It’s been a useful American mythos, driving us to […]
How do we de-radicalize? Three experts in political extremism and violence share ideas
The most urgent civic project of the next few years will be deradicalizing Americans who believe that in the absence of success at the ballot box, armed insurrection is a legitimate response. The events of Jan 6, when an extremist mob loyal to then-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, have brought the scope and urgency […]