Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy. The results are in. Counterintuitive though it may be, statistical analysis shows…
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Benjamin Franklin, ‘Person of Interest’ from Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
‘A republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin’s 1787 quip about the government Americans would have is probably the most popular Founding-era wisdom still with us. Maybe not for long. As if to prove Franklin’s insight about the tendency of republics to self-destruct, a District of Columbia panel has identified Franklin, among other Founders,…
Read MoreProsperity Rides on a Republican Senate by Phil Gramm and Mike Solon in the Wall Street Journal
When Barack Obama swept the 2008 elections, his long coattails helped flip eight Republican Senate seats to the Democrats, giving the Obama-Biden presidency the Senate’s most progressive supermajority since FDR. With all 60 Senate Democrats voting in unison for President Obama’s vision, they passed ObamaCare without a single Republican vote. The new Democratic senators also…
Read MoreSpare Us More of the Arrogance of “Expertise” by Jason Riley in the Wall Street Journal
Mitch McConnell’s short speech at the GOP convention last week didn’t receive a ton of attention, but in his understated way the Senate majority leader articulated one of the less obvious issues at stake in November. “This election is incredibly consequential for middle America,” said Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican and the only top congressional…
Read MoreMake the Senate Great Again
An EXCEPTIONAL article in the Wall Street Journal written by Senator Ben Sasse on non-partisan solutions to better government: What would the Founding Fathers think of America if they came back to life? Their eyes would surely bug out first at our technology and wealth. But I suspect they’d also be stunned by the deformed…
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