The importance of the current geopolitical moment can’t be overstated. China senses a weak rival.
Secure the national interest, bolster longtime allies, and stop exporting effete Western liberalism: How hard is that for our failed ruling class to grasp? nypost.com/2021/08/17/chi…
Kabul is now the millennial Saigon. Even those of us who have long urged getting out of the hopeless Afghan morass are apoplectic at the self-defeating way this was done.
The onus is now on the U.S. to show China it will not be pushed around lightly. nypost.com/2021/08/17/chi…
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First, on a personal note, I'd like to thank @NRO (some employees of whom I certainly consider friends) for apparently living rent-free in their heads this week. There was also @baseballcrank's fusillade against common good originalism. nationalreview.com/2021/08/explai…
1. On Tuesday, we released a really fun episode of @NewsweekOpinion's "The Debate" podcast: "Vaccine Mandates: Public Necessity or Government Tyranny?" art19.com/shows/the-deba…
2. On Tuesday night, I wrote my first piece on the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, for @nypost, focusing on the great-power competition angle: "China outflanking US in the wake of Biden’s Afghan debacle." nypost.com/2021/08/17/chi…
3. On Wednesday, I published my latest piece with @CityJournal, this time looking at problems with using "public-nuisance" litigation as a way to hold Big Pharma accountable for the opioid crisis. city-journal.org/opioid-lawsuit…
Most of this essay is fair, but there are some obvious misreadings. For example, I'm faulted for taking a hatchet to Founding-era federalism (e.g., Madison in Federalist No. 45), but my underlying article expressly raises possibility that Bill of Rights "incorporation" was wrong.
Also, a leitmotif in this essay, as with other CGO criticisms, is a rudimentary misunderstanding of what the "common good" is.
There are some "gotcha" attempts at alleged inconsistencies with respect to deference, modesty, expanding v. narrowing democratic majoritarianism, etc.
Thanks so much to my friend @JennaEllisEsq for having me on @RealAmVoice tonight to discuss conservatism versus libertarianism and what I mean when I propose a jurisprudence of "common good originalism."
It has *long* been conservative orthodoxy that states possess near-plenary power over their curricula. Many on the Right have supported abolishing the Department of Education for decades on precisely these grounds. It's a federalism argument right out of Madison in Federalist 45.
What is the issue here? If blue states like California can mandate ethnic studies in their curricula (aside: have "principled" right-liberals objected to that on proceduralist grounds?), then how can red states not ban racially discriminatory pedagogy that's anathema to Title VI?
My latest long-form essay and @tabletmag debut is a look back at the history of the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process”—and how the Trump and Biden administrations fit into it. tabletmag.com/sections/israe…
@tabletmag For decades, Washington’s bipartisan "peace process" professional class pushed the same tired tactics to achieve Middle East peace. They failed. Trump changed the game. Biden’s legacy will partially depend on not messing it up.
@tabletmag Decades-long Palestinian intransigence makes a lot more sense when you consider what Arafat said in 1974: “We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed. The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel.”