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It was my great pleasure to visit the home of the great American novelist and cultural philosopher Edith Wharton (1862-1937) in Lenox, Massachusetts. She designed it and lived it in for some her most productive and tumultuous years, before moving to Europe and remaining there. This was her estate during a period of growing estrangement from her […] -
The Singapore summit, attended by about 3000 international journalists, followed decades of an uneasy stability maintained in Asia in large measure because of American-led security structures. President Trump conceded much to chairman Kim and received virtually nothing concrete in return. Former Canadian diplomat in South Korea, James Trottier, noted that the rapprochement between Trump and […]
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The June 12–13 Singapore Summit is over. Now the partisan analysis begins. Is the “glass” half full? A quarter full? Contains just a few drops? Is there a glass at all? Certainly, there has been as much bloviating bombast as a hyperactive, 5,000-individual media contingent (complemented by thousands of critics/commentators/analysts around the globe) could possibly […]
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Great entrepreneurs polarize, and taking the degree of polarization as a yardstick, Tesla’s Elon Musk must be a great entrepreneur. Splitting the investor space and the public into two ironclad camps, he usually comes out on top of any detractors. In May, Tesla’s stock dropped 30 percent from high to low after the old stories […]
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The outcome of Italy’s latest national elections made it very difficult to form a government. Finally, an ostensibly shocking breakthrough occurred: Lega (formerly the Northern League), which is labeled as a right-wing movement, and the Five Star Movement (M5S), labeled as populists, agreed to form a coalition and picked Giuseppe Conte, a law professor, as prime minister. […]
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This past weekend, it was the 295th birthday of Adam Smith, champion of trade and the philosophical mastermind who explained the end of the old world and the beginning of the new. And yet, at this time, after so many centuries of intellectual work to promote economic and political freedom, we hardly have any left, […]
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World Mercury Project Team Note: The lessons learned from the ongoing saga of thimerosal are significant to all who care about vaccine safety, want justice for the injured, and to prevent future harm. The government has said they corrected the thimerosal issue and want us to believe the case is closed. But has the public […]
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We Americans have lived under the thumb of the czars for over 80 years. It is time to throw off the shackles of their cronyism and incompetence. While they sit in their palatial office buildings in the capitol, giving orders from on high, many of the problems they claim to solve only get worse. Before […]
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One of my few prized possessions left from Romania is a tattered copy of the May 1977 best seller, “Greyhound’s America,” by Romulus Rusan, published under the brutal communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. I’ve never met the author until recently, during a reception in Washington, D.C. In 1977 communist Romania, the child of a blue […]
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During his speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention, Marcus Luttrell—a Purple Heart recipient and former U.S. Navy Seal—said the following: “To the next generation: Your war is here. You don’t have to go searching for it. Your people are afraid. I was allowed to walk with giants and now we’re looking for the next generation […]
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Among the goals of communism, according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is that it “abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality.” The family “will vanish as a matter of course.” So why would communism want to destroy these values and traditions, particularly the family? To understand this, we need to understand the nature […]
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Thomas Piketty captured something essential in the post-Lehman mood with his study of income and wealth differentials in the developed world. It is a pity that his policy recommendations are misguided, in part because in his analysis, he missed the worst kind of inequality. During periods of economic crisis and slow growth, concerns about inequality loom […]
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Congress recently passed, and President Donald Trump signed, the “Right to Try” bill that gives dying patients limited access to drugs that have not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Our founders would be astonished that we need such a bill. Nowhere does the U.S. Constitution give the federal government the […]
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In comparison with those of Western economies, China’s countermeasures against the 2008 financial crisis were more drastic. While in the United States the balance sheet of the banking system increased by $4 trillion in the years after the global financial crisis, the balance sheet of the Chinese banking system expanded by $20 trillion in the […]
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In the wake of a tragic shooting at a Santa Fe school, NFL star J.J. Watt offered to pay for the funerals of the victims. Football fans will not be surprised by this gesture. Watt is even more prolific at helping those in need, from large donations and fundraising campaigns to spending time with children in […]
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The original objective of the European Economic Community in 1957 was to peacefully integrate Europe through the creation of a continent-wide free market. The process of expanding the common market and eliminating barriers was extremely rewarding for the six founding members: France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg). The French-German […]
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The G7 failure to come to terms on trade highlights the problem of governments trying to macromanage trade. And no, the failure to even agree to disagree cannot be blamed on President Donald Trump and his newfound economic nationalism. The list of countries with the largest trade surplus with the United States is led by […]
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Commentary For over a year, critics and establishment analysts derided President Donald Trump’s strategy on North Korea. They said that his threat to use military force and sanctions would not be able to pressure North Korea toward the negotiating table. “The first misconception is that sanctions and talk of war will lead North Korea to […]
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The populist coalition in Italy has presented an “economic” program and a threat to the European Union that makes Greece look like a walk in the park. The Italians have more debt, are more intertwined with the European banking system, and have even drawn up a plan on how to leave the Euro. But where […]
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Free markets in medicine are not “broken”—they have not been allowed to work since 1944, when wartime federal policies began disturbing market forces. Federal control of prices and service delivery further expanded following the Medicare Act of 1965. In 2010, Obamacare crushed medical insurance plans, doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, and home health […]
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In May, China reportedly offered the United States a $200 billion reduction in its goods surplus with the United States. It would be a major victory for the Trump administration’s tough trade policy on China. The Chinese authorities so far have confirmed they are willing to buy up to $70 billion more agricultural and energy […]
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Fifty years ago, students in the Latin Quarter of Paris rebelled against authority. Their anger was directed against not only a university system that was probably too conservative and elitist, but also against the chief of state. In spite of the democratic election, the president of the republic, Gen. Charles de Gaulle, ruled with the […]
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The world has been regaled this past week with stunning examples of the depths to which public discourse has descended. Is this the expression of deeply held political convictions? Or might there be a different sort of agenda at work? Samantha Bee said on her May 30 show that Ivanka Trump is a c***t. She […]
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I share this with Joseph Stalin: a great appreciation for the musical genius of Maria Yudina. And I share this with Maria: a deep loathing of Stalin. Maria never made a secret of her disgust and hatred of the Soviet regime. She let Stalin know, at great personal peril. He preserved her life and kept […]
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The editorial boards of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are at the opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. They seldom agree. Yet on President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico, and the European Union, the two boards are singing in unison that the tariffs are bad […]
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In the United States, citizens with Italian national origin are the seventh largest ethnic group at 17.2 million. Thus, Americans are well aware of Italy and Italians; unfortunately, what we know is often a jumble of odds and ends (Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and Marc Anthony’s funeral oration; the Roman Empire and the schoolchild’s need to […]
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On June 1, a populist government took over in Rome, capping a political drama that sent European financial markets into turmoil as the future of the euro region was again thrown into doubt. The anti-corruption Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League took power in a coalition, ending 88 days of political deadlock. Giuseppe Conte, […]
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