Abolish the Department of Education

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Neal McCluskey Love or hate the Project 2025 blueprint for the next conservative president, it has done at least one good thing: revive discussion of ending the U.S. Department of Education. That department has no constitutional business existing. But eliminating the programs it administers, many of which predate the department, is just as important. , In the early 1970s, the National Education Association transformed from a professional association to a labor union and offered its endorsement to a presidential […]

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Has Matt Gaetz Been Set-up for Eviction from Public Life?

Has Matt Gaetz Been Set-up for Eviction from Public Life?

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I have had a horrible thought. Of all of Trump’s appointees, Matt Gaetz and Robert Kennedy will be the most difficult to get confirmed. And Gaetz has resigned from the House of Representatives where he is the most effective member against the ruling establishment. Was his appointment as Attorney General a trick to get him out of public life? Robert Kennedy’s appointment was said to be in doubt because  he would be hard to confirm, but so would […]

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Abolish the TSA

Abolish the TSA

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In response to 9/11, President George W. Bush created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), bringing the country’s myriad airport security protocols under one central authority. Two decades later, the results of this experiment are a complete disaster. The agency has not made air travel safer. The agency has merely made it costlier and more time-consuming to fly. The TSA has some 58,000 employees and a budget of $11.8 billion for FY 2025. Its ever-changing screening process involves forcing […]

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"Trump and the Future of American Power"

“Trump and the Future of American Power”

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A very interesting conversation in Foreign Affairs with my Hoover colleague Stephen Kotkin. The first several paragraphs: Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia, a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the author of an acclaimed three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin. (The third volume is forthcoming.) Kotkin has also written extensively and insightfully on geopolitics, the sources of American power, and the twists and turns of the Trump era. […]

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Quotation of the Day…

Quotation of the Day…

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Tweet … is from page 267 of Thomas Sowell’s 1999 book, Barbarians Inside the Gates: It is one of the pathetic signs of the “me generation” that some people think it is a defense of some government policy to say, “I benefitted from it.” Nazis benefitted from Hitler! DBx: Yep. I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard or read someone who, after correctly identifying Ms. Smith and Mr. Jones as workers who would lose their jobs […]

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Bret Stephens (N.Y. Times) on the Causes of Harris's Defeat

Bret Stephens (N.Y. Times) on the Causes of Harris’s Defeat

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I liked this piece (by someone who “voted reluctantly for Harris”), and thought I’d pass it along. An excerpt: How, indeed, did Democrats lose so badly, considering how they saw Donald Trump — a twice-impeached former president, a felon, a fascist, a bigot, a buffoon, a demented old man, an object of nonstop late-night mockery and incessant moral condemnation? The theory that many Democrats will be tempted to adopt is that a nation prone to racism, sexism, xenophobia […]

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