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The Good News From the Colbert Cancellation

The Good News From the Colbert Cancellation
Marquee featuring “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Colbert's show is produced, in New York City, on July 18, 2025. Stephen Colbert's “The Late Show,” long a staple of late night U.S. television, will end in 2026, the CBS network said on July 17, Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
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One of my earliest memories was sneaking into the living room after bedtime and seeing my father watch Johnny Carson on late night television. I never understood a word of the narrative but loved the band. It was an old-fashioned big band led by trumpeter Doc Severinsen. The music was thrilling, and vastly better than any of the music that replaced it as “The Tonight Show” rolled from host to host.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]