You Might Be Outraged at Ted Cruz If . . .
Sore loser. Snake. Self-absorbed. Traitor. These are just a few of the stones cast at Ted Cruz following his Republican National Convention speech of July 20. After congratulating Donald Trump for...
View ArticleThe Statist Convergence of Trump and Clinton
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are vastly different in terms of style, background, and platform. But, at a more fundamental level, the candidates are remarkably similar: Each embraces policies to...
View ArticleClinton and Trump Should Both Drop Out for the Good of the Country
After the vice-presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence, it is even more painfully obvious that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is fit to be the next president of the United...
View ArticleThe Political System is Rigged—But That’s Not Our Main Problem
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton each have their cheerleaders. Most of us, though, regard these candidates as horrid and this year’s presidential race as an “international embarrassment,” as Vincent...
View Article12 Reasons Trump Won
I get it. I didn’t support Donald Trump’s presidential bid, and I was as surprised as most by the outcome. But I get why so many voters supported Trump—and a part of me is happy they did. Now, the same...
View ArticleTrump’s Enablers
Some people find it strange that so many Americans voted for Donald Trump. As I’ve argued, that’s not as strange as it might seem. But what is truly bizarre is that so many people who saw Trump as a...
View ArticleCrony Fallacies and Trump’s Carrier Deal
Recently President-Elect Donald Trump intervened in the business of Carrier, an Indiana manufacturer of furnace and air conditioner units, by cajoling the Indiana government to offer the company $7...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Donald Trump’s Nationalism
President-elect Donald Trump is explicitly an “America first” nationalist. Stephen Bannon, one of Trump’s key advisers, calls himself an “economic nationalist.” But what does nationalism mean? Is it...
View ArticleAyn Rand Is the Anti-Trump
Recently the Washington Post has published numerous stories that worry about “fake news” (see a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth example out of many articles on the subject). It seems...
View ArticleWhat Trumponomics Shares with Progressivism
If you asked most Progressives and most supporters of Donald Trump, they’d tell you that members of the two camps are diametric opposites. That’s why Progressives are protesting Trump’s presidency,...
View ArticleWhy Trump Lies
Why does Donald Trump lie so freely? I consider several good explanations, one moral-psychological, several strategic, one philosophic: Subjectivism At some level, Trump seems not to be able to tell...
View ArticleTrump’s Joint Session Speech: Good and Bad
Whatever we might say about the policies that Donald Trump discussed during his February 28 speech to a joint session of Congress, we can grant that Trump sounded more like a statesman than he has in...
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