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In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the dictatorship of Oceania subjects its citizens, or at least those within the ruling Party, to a ritual known as the “Two Minutes Hate,” in which a giant “telescreen” blares out propaganda to a captive audience. The narrative conveyed is simple but effective enough to repeat every day with only…
Read MoreThe Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary recently described a nightmare experience dealing with the Internal Revenue Service. “My husband and I received a notice from the IRS in November indicating that we owed an additional $11,786 in income taxes for the 2018 tax year,” Singletary explained…
Read MoreThe Covid-19 pandemic brought tragedy and disruption to America. But it has also provided another stark warning concerning the country’s disastrous overreliance on overseas production. It has demonstrated that without a strong, self-reliant industrial base, this country’s ability to forge a healthy, prosperous future—and even its ability to defend itself against foreign enemies—will be severely compromised. The fact that the world’s largest, and theoretically most advanced, economy could not provide…
Read MoreJust over a decade ago, in the autumn of 2010, the Danish state broadcaster DR aired the first season of a drama titled Borgen, centering on a smart and charismatic forty-something politician, Birgitte Nyborg, who leads the relatively minor Moderate Party. In an election rocked by a late-breaking scandal, the Moderates gain an unexpected fifteen…
Read MoreConservatism has a “women problem.” Conservative women exist, of course, but as a political movement conservatism is associated with opposition to feminism. And feminism is popularly understood as the movement for women’s liberation. Why would women oppose their own liberation? So, the argument goes, it takes perverse dedication to the interests of the patriarchal enemy…
Read MoreOn July 1, 1987, Senator Edward Kennedy took to the Senate floor to deliver perhaps the most famous denunciation of any judicial nominee in American history. His target, whose Supreme Court nomination had been announced that very day, was a graying sixty-year‑old judge on the powerful Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, with a…
Read MoreThroughout 2021, U.S. stock market valuations have hovered near all‑time highs. In June, the unadjusted price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of the S&P 500 index eclipsed the tech boom record of 2000. Many other asset classes have attained, or nearly attained, record valuations as well. Stratospheric valuations may be partially attributable to the unique circumstances surrounding Covid-19…
Read MoreEarlier this summer, ProPublica released a so-called bombshell report with income tax data leaked from the Internal Revenue Service. The report showed how little America’s twenty-five richest families paid in effective tax rates compared to the average American. How they paid so little was no surprise to anyone who has worked with high-net-worth individuals…
Read MoreA conversation on internet platform policy and economics hosted by American Affairs and American Greatness, featuring panelists Mark W. Koran, Minnesota State Senate (R-32); Blake Masters, Thiel Capital; Fiona McFarland, Florida House of Representatives (R-72); and J. D. Vance, Narya Capital…
Read MoreSeveral commentators have taken Trump’s departure from office to mean that the so-called populist tide is ebbing and that we are witnessing the return to a pre-2016 “old normal.” In fact, Joe Biden’s campaign implicitly—and sometimes explicitly—promised the restoration of Obama-era technocracy, returning the reins of power to the “experts,” as seen in his choice…
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