The men who launched the American Revolution (1763–1791) were not saints — there were slaveholders, speculators, and schemers among them — but they wagered everything on a set of Enlightenment propositions that no government had ever been founded on before:… Read More ›
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Trump Voters: They Have Their Reasons
Some 75 million U.S. citizens will vote for Donald Trump this time around. That’s much more than the total populations of, say, Australia (27m), Canada (42m), or Korea (52m), for example. Why do they vote for Trump? It is not… Read More ›
The Most Important Election of our Lifetime
Preamble I am forever wondering whether I really am a pinko leftist Commie Canadian Euro-Brussels bootlicker who cried into my eco tote bag when Hillary lost… or whether I’m just a rational centrist who realizes that progressive tax regimes help… Read More ›