Student Scapegoats
The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
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The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
The Trump administration has a NatCon economics problem.
American populism and religion are bound by a shared desire for order in a rapidly changing world.
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
Liberal democracies need to restore a climate of entrepreneurial opportunity and competition.
The cure may be worse than the disease.
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
The US health secretary is spreading disinformation about vaccines while the administration he serves guts medical-research agencies and programs.
Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump himself are both products of the social-media age.
Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?
Though faith may provide comfort to some, it cannot produce reliable facts about nature that can be used to repair a divided populace.
The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.