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“A day to be proud”
I first wrote about Rick Rescorla in 2003 after finishing James Stewart’s Heart of a Soldier, the book based on Stewart’s New Yorker article “The real heroes are dead.” (“The real heroes are…
Dartmouth’s 9/11 | Power Line
Following 9/11 the New York Times ran Portraits of Grief profiling many of those lost in the 9/11 attacks. The Times attributes authorship of these artful profiles collectively to Kirk Johnson, N.R. Kleinfeld, David Barstow,…
The similarities between Elon Musk and Nixon’s Office of Economic Opportunity director
Suppose there was a Republican president who never showed any passion for limiting government but resented it when people on the public payroll undermined his agenda. Suppose he found a more ideological warrior, a man…
Tim Kaine Rejects Judeo-Christian Foundation of America
This week, a U.S. senator from Virginia flatly rejected the central principle of the Declaration of Independence. “The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government but come from the…
Churchill peers into the future
In June 1945, at the opening of the general election campaign, Winston Churchill gave a speech that was broadcast over the BBC. Having recently read Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, Churchill observed: My friends, I must tell you…
2 Trump cases to watch as SCOTUS returns from summer break
The Trump administration lost two major cases before two different federal appellate courts in the last week, each one involving a separate unilateral executive action that was ruled illegal. With the U.S. Supreme Court…
Peter Wood: Summer reading | Power Line
Peter Wood is president of the invaluable National Association of Scholars, a former professor of anthropology and college provost, and the author of compelling books including 1620, Wrath, A Bee in the Mouth, and (my…
‘What is an American?’ Sen. Schmitt at NatCom
The following are remarks as prepared by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Sept. 2 at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. There’s a special significance to this conference this year. Donald Trump’s victory was…
Golden ages teach us about what makes civilizations rise and fall
The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and Aristotle's Lyceum.…
For Massachusetts, a New Logo
As regular readers may recall, we covered Minnesota’s creation of a new state seal and state flag, to replace the ones that had been in place for well over a century. Leftists, who controlled the committee responsible for the…
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