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Michael Barone

Generations defining - and redefining - American history
07/03/2020 - 11:43am
Michael Barone
AMERICAN HISTORY: July 3, 2020 Americans naturally tend to think of their presidents in terms of generations, like they do with their families. This may have started with the news that former Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, half a century to the day the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence they jointly drafted. THE FOUNDING...
Violent crime is a confiscatory wealth tax
Michael Barone 06/27/2020 - 2:39pm
VIOLENT CRIME: June 27, 2020 “What gives urgency to debates about race in America today — and what drives the reparations movement, are two basic facts,” Walter Russell Mead writes in the Wall Street Journal. The first, he says, is that “The median white household has a net worth of $171,000, roughly 10 times the median...
The frivolous Democrats
Michael Barone 06/26/2020 - 2:31pm
DEMOCRATS: June 26, 2020 White college graduates have emerged from the last two decades of elections as an increasingly large and cohesive political bloc — and one that poses problems for both political parties. Back in the pre-COVID-19 era, their numbers augmented by recent products of woke campuses, they seemed the dominant force in the...
Success breeds failure
Michael Barone 06/21/2020 - 9:22pm
SUCCESS: June 19, 2020 Success breeds failure. That’s a lesson taught by America’s current woes, the stumbling attempts to cope with the novel coronavirus, and the all-too-familiar scripts for responding to police misconduct and violent riots. WHAT WORKED once upon a time no longer proves functional; policies that once enjoyed...
The new religion of woke anti-racism
Michael Barone 06/15/2020 - 6:27pm
RACE ISSUES: June 12, 2020 It’s all about religion, isn’t it? “(W)e have the cult of social justice on the left,” Andrew Sullivan wrote in New York Magazine, “a religion whose followers show the same zeal as any born-again Evangelical.” LINGUIST John McWhorter elaborated on that theme in the Atlantic. “(...
Violent rioting, as in the 1960s, hurts the most disadvantaged
Michael Barone 06/08/2020 - 3:09pm
RIOTS: June 5, 2020 “America is burning. But that’s how forests grow.” So spoke Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. “Riots are an integral part of the country’s march towards progress.” So read a now-deleted tweet from the Democratic Committee of Fairfax County, Virginia, the affluent Washington...
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