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Michael Barone

Can government build things again?
06/24/2022 - 7:37pm
Michael Barone
GOVERNMENT: June 24, 2022 Give the New York Times’s Ezra Klein credit for identifying a problem with big government institutions. “Our mechanisms of governance have become so risk averse that they are now running tremendous risks because of the problems they cannot, or will not, solve,” he tweeted. The subject was San Francisco’s attempt to make permanent the parklets, or...
The secular right versus the woke left
Michael Barone 06/19/2022 - 5:48pm
RELIGION: June 17, 2022 This month, I’ve come across two outstanding articles by writers I had not previously known on important trends on the political right and political left. ONE IS “What Comes After the Religious Right?,” a guest essay in the New York Times written by Nate Hochman, an Intercollegiate Studies Institute...
What was the left thinking?
Michael Barone 06/13/2022 - 10:47pm
BIDEN PRESIDENCY: June 10, 2022 Whether you’re contemplating San Francisco voters’ recall of left-wing District Attorney Chesa Boudin or the plight of Democrats nationally as they face voters’ dismay at out-of-control inflation, immigration and crime, the question is liable to come to mind: What were they thinking? ACTUALLY,...
Politics as the leisure of the theory class
Michael Barone 06/04/2022 - 3:06pm
POLITICS: June 3, 2022 Politics has increasingly become, for many Americans, the leisure of the theory class. That’s a phrase from the early 20th century sociologist Thorstein Veblen, which I turned on its head in a recent column. He was condemning the showy consumerism of the contemporary rich for having no economically practical purpose. I...
Primary results: Trump repudiated, Republicans enthused, Democrats focused on theoretical issues
Michael Barone 05/30/2022 - 11:09pm
PRIMARIES: May 27, 2022 Complete and utter repudiation. That’s what a record number of Republican primary voters in Georgia administered to former President Donald Trump this Tuesday. The man he blamed for not contesting his narrow 2020 loss in the state, Gov. Brian Kemp, won renomination with 74% of the vote. THE MAN he persuaded to get...
It’s not exactly Trump’s Republican Party
Michael Barone 05/24/2022 - 10:04pm
This Week's Conservative Focus . . . Politics Is it Donald Trump’s Republican Party? You can make the case it is, as partisan Democrats do, from the victories of various candidates endorsed by the former president in Republican primaries. But it’s not an airtight case, and Trump’s batting average is inflated by the dozens of...
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