Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have high economic productivity, high social equality, high social trust and high levels of personal happiness.Progressives say it’s because they have generous welfar... More »
Let’s state some facts: Michael Rubens Bloomberg notoriously expanded stop-and-frisk in New York City to obscene proportions, violating the bodies and constitutional rights of mostly minority men and boys, and not only defended the policy, but mocked his detra... More »
As several people have noticed, this was the most politically successful week of the Trump presidency.First, President Trump’s job approval numbers are rising. When the impeachment inquiry got rolling in October his Gallup approval rating was 39. Now it’s 49. ... More »
Pick the worst moment of the Senate impeachment hearings:A) Susan Collins saying it’s O.K. to keep Donald Trump in office because he’s “learned from this case.”B) A spokeswoman for Jim Risch claiming the senator was not sleeping but just “listening with his ey... More »
Men and women are primarily motivated by self-interest. No other partial truth has done as much damage as this one.If you base your political and social systems on the idea that the autonomous self-interested individual is the basic unit of society, then you w... More »