August 15, 2019 Archives

Week of August 12, 2019 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, August 12

Epstein's Death Has a Simpler Explanation

Lindsay M. Hayes, The Atlantic

Why Conservatives Struggle with Identity Politics

Joshua Mitchell, National Affairs

White Supremacy: Like Manna to the Left

Roger Kimball, American Greatness

Mass Shooting in Perspective

Jacques Delacroix, Notes on Liberty

Democratic Candidates Must Address Cyber Threats

Nate Snyder, RealClearPolicy

In Defense of Political Hypocrisy

Christian Barnard, Quillette

Kids Aren't Playing Enough Sports. The Culprit? Cost

Kelly Cohen, ESPN

Replacing Chevron Deference

Mike Rappaport, Law & Liberty

The Mysterious, Outrageous Death of Jeffrey Epstein

Judith Miller, City Journal

Crashed Spacecraft Spilled Microscopic Animals on Moon

Daniel Oberhaus, Wired

Trumponomics is No Flop

Stephen Moore, The Hill

Congress Making Progress on Early Gun Bills

Francie Diep, Pacific Standard

Tuesday, August 13

The Rural America Death Spiral

Stef W. Kight & Juliet Bartz, Axios

Pragmatic Liberals Confront Activists in Blue Cities

Christopher F. Rufo, City Journal

The Myth of Labor Union Victimhood

Mark Pulliam, Law & Liberty

Repeal of Cadillac Tax Strategic Mistake for Both Parties

James Capretta, RCPolicy

White Supremacists Look to Remake Map of America

Casey Michel, ThinkProgress

Forgotten: The Largest Nuclear Accident in US History

Samuel Gilbert, VICE

Conservatives Fretting White Supremacy 'Problem' Are Chumps

Mark Bauerlein, AG

The Dayton Shooting and Left-Wing Extremism

Cathy Young, Arc Digital

Talking About Charlottesville with Alt-Right Students

Jennifer Rich, The Conversation

California's Nanny State Pols Might Kill Off Uber

Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner

Supposed 'Sabotage' of Affordable Care Act Just Political Rhetoric

David Balat, Hill

Journos' Debunker Mentality: Rush to Rip Conspiracy Talk

Sohrab Ahmari, NY Post

Wednesday, August 14

The Rise of 'Drag Kids' — and the Death of Gay Culture

Sky Gilbert, Quillette

How to Avert a Public-Pension Crisis

Josh B. McGee, National Affairs

When Limitless Relativism Meets Limitless Moralism

Daniel Mahoney, Law & Liberty

Vichycons: Against Backstabbing, Collaborationist 'Right'

Michael Anton, Am. Mind

Progress and Return: Overcoming the Leftist Oligarchy

Glenn Ellmers, Modern Age

Emerging Dem Majority Finally Coming to Pass?

Paul Waldman, American Prospect

Why the Bronx Burned

Gretchen Hildebran, Jacobin

Blocking GI Bill Funds from Career Schools Limits Vets

Kathy Chow, RCEducation

Uneasy over Trump, TX Suburban Women Not a Sure Bet

Melanie Mason, LA Times

China Trade Policy, Like 'Muslim Ban,' Needs Rethinking

Brian McNicoll, RCPolicy

DHS in a 'Mad Scramble' on Domestic Terror

Betsy Woodruff & Erin Banco, Daily Beast

States Sue Trump Admin Over EPA's New 'Dirty Power' Rule

Erik Larson, Bloomberg

Thursday, August 15

Young GOP Grifters Own Libs, Destroy Conservative Movement

Kimberly Ross, Arc

Planned Parenthood Could Leave Title X as Soon As Next Week

Anna North, Vox

Max Boot's Dishonesty

Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review

Nat'l Review's Ugly Attack Reflects Trumpified Conservatism

Max Boot, Wash. Post

Busting the College-Industrial Complex

Frederick Hess & J. Grant Addison, Nat'l Affairs

The Last of the Ayn Rand Acolytes

Alexander Sammon, The New Republic

George Will Strikes Out by Attacking Nat'l Conservatism

Emile A. Doak, Am. Consv.

Don't Ban Assault Weapons — Tax Them

Saul Cornell, The Atlantic

In Government Property We Trust

Steven Malanga, City Journal

Only Bold Proposals Can Displace Globalism

Chris Buskirk, American Greatness

Campus Elites: Many College Presidents Top $1M

Jennifer Harper, Washington Times

US Right Populists & Their Global Allies Disagree on Tech

Evgeny Morozov, Guardian

Friday, August 16

Five Dem Senators Declared All-Out War on SCOTUS

Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress

The Liberal Who Told Reagan's Favorite Joke

Lawrence B. Glickman, Boston Review

Red Flag Laws in the Age of Political Psychiatry

Christopher Roach, American Greatness

The Bigotry of Environmental Pessimism

Michael Shellenberger, Quillette

Ex-ICE Attn'y Realized the Gov't Was Using False Evidence

Melissa del Bosque, PP

Immigrants Should Not Be On Welfare

Stephen Moore, The Hill

From Mainstays of Republic to Progressive Rent-Seekers

John O. McGinnis, L & L

The Limits of Trump's White Identity Politics

Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic

Here's Why Trump Must Watch Powell

Stacy Washington, LifeZette

How the Right Lost Faith in Capitalism

Giles Fraser, UnHerd

US Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It So

Nikole Hannah-Jones, NYT

Steve King: Racist, Misogynist, Just Like Other Republicans

Elie Mystal, Nation

Morning Note Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics

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