Tacitus: “The more corrupt the society, the more numerous the laws”
Pete McGinnis, director of communications at the Functional Government Initiative wrote in RealClearPolitics that the goal of the “censorship industrial complex” is to dominate “American citizens whose opinions diverge from government narratives”. Kyle Kondik writing for Politico discussed the role of non-college whites in the “Trumpian realignment”. Douglas MacKinnon wrote in The Messenger that the DNC would “rather eat broken glass” than ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the Democratic Party’s nominee next year. In The Nation, John Nichols suggested “ending poverty in America” as an agenda Democrats could propose.
John Daniel Davidson in The Federalist wrote that “the point of a show trial is not to deliver justice, it’s to display power.” Last Saturday in The Free Press, Bari Weiss quoted Batya Ungar-Sargon: “There is a huge divide in the GOP between what the donor class wants, which is the fight against wokeness, and what the voter base wants, which is an economy that works for the hardest-working Americans.” Andy Puzder of Fox News wrote that “wage growth has failed to keep pace with inflation – increasing only 13% since Biden took office”.
Mary Ziegler of CNN wrote that “leading antiabortion groups, like Students for Life, argue that women do not need abortion (or even birth control) to achieve their dreams.” E.V. Osment wrote yesterday in RealClearPolicy that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s flip-flop on abortion “reveals a Democratic Party that is increasingly extreme and intolerant of any dissent, and one which is embracing an abortion on demand up-to-birth stance for any reason paid for by the taxpayer.”
Jenny Anderson wrote in Time that when University of Texas Austin professor Peter Bergman was a teacher in Harlem “everyone was getting Ds and Fs”, and “most parents in the school were low-income, very busy, and confused by report cards.” J. Michael Bailey wrote in UnHerd about the “theory that ROGD [rapid-onset gender dysphoria] is a social contagion in which the false belief that one is transgender spreads,” a theory which Scientific American seems to oppose.
Robert H. Bork Jr. contrasted Lina Khan, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, writing that their guidelines put “all business under the thumb of regulators.” In Racket News, Matt Taibbi wrote about “silent editorial punishment” by tech platforms. Yesterday in RealClearEnergy, Ethan Brown wrote that climate leaders welcomed “more than 300 members of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus to last year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt.”
Joe Buccino wrote in RealClearDefense that Richard Nixon's “dedication to education led to the creation of federal student loan programs, making higher education more accessible to students from all walks of life.” Yesterday in RealClearPolicy, Dan Alban and Daryl James wrote about a civil forfeiture incident in Oklahoma and how “Eh Wah fought back with free representation from [their] public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, and recovered his cash.” Civil forfeiture is “a process that allows the government to take and keep cash, cars and other assets without a criminal conviction.”
In The Federalist, David Harsanyi wrote, “whereas Reagan promised Americans the power to build their own shiny cities on hills, Obama promised endless dependency and handouts.” Harsanyi also wrote, “Obama ruled the nation by regulatory regime and pen. That frustration surely contributed to the rise of Donald Trump.” Stephen Collinson wrote in CNN Politics that GOP presidential “hopefuls have been wary of criticizing the ex-president for fear of alienating... Republican voters who were satisfied with his presidency and believe he is being persecuted.”
Sam Patten writing for The Spectator quoted the Roman historian Tacitus: “The more corrupt the society, the more numerous the laws.” Patten also wrote, “relying solely on legalism to mete out justice and effect political outcomes will in all likelihood leave us even more disappointed.” In RealClearPolitics, Bill King wrote that the author Paul Hobby suggests “that a moderate is not someone who splits the difference on every issue but rather someone who applies a certain mindset and methodology to issues.”
Yesterday in Spiked, Tom Slater opened his article with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.” He then wrote that King “situated the civil-rights struggle not simply as a demand for dignity and rights for black Americans, but as a leap towards a colour-blind society”.
Six days ago, Taylor Moore of In These Times wrote about how the new Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson “has steadily pushed forward with Treatment Not Trauma, a grassroots coalition-led proposal to replace police officers with mental health clinicians for 911 calls relating to mental health crises and homelessness.”
John Daniel Davidson in The Federalist wrote that “the point of a show trial is not to deliver justice, it’s to display power.” Last Saturday in The Free Press, Bari Weiss quoted Batya Ungar-Sargon: “There is a huge divide in the GOP between what the donor class wants, which is the fight against wokeness, and what the voter base wants, which is an economy that works for the hardest-working Americans.” Andy Puzder of Fox News wrote that “wage growth has failed to keep pace with inflation – increasing only 13% since Biden took office”.
Mary Ziegler of CNN wrote that “leading antiabortion groups, like Students for Life, argue that women do not need abortion (or even birth control) to achieve their dreams.” E.V. Osment wrote yesterday in RealClearPolicy that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s flip-flop on abortion “reveals a Democratic Party that is increasingly extreme and intolerant of any dissent, and one which is embracing an abortion on demand up-to-birth stance for any reason paid for by the taxpayer.”
Jenny Anderson wrote in Time that when University of Texas Austin professor Peter Bergman was a teacher in Harlem “everyone was getting Ds and Fs”, and “most parents in the school were low-income, very busy, and confused by report cards.” J. Michael Bailey wrote in UnHerd about the “theory that ROGD [rapid-onset gender dysphoria] is a social contagion in which the false belief that one is transgender spreads,” a theory which Scientific American seems to oppose.
Robert H. Bork Jr. contrasted Lina Khan, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, writing that their guidelines put “all business under the thumb of regulators.” In Racket News, Matt Taibbi wrote about “silent editorial punishment” by tech platforms. Yesterday in RealClearEnergy, Ethan Brown wrote that climate leaders welcomed “more than 300 members of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus to last year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt.”
Joe Buccino wrote in RealClearDefense that Richard Nixon's “dedication to education led to the creation of federal student loan programs, making higher education more accessible to students from all walks of life.” Yesterday in RealClearPolicy, Dan Alban and Daryl James wrote about a civil forfeiture incident in Oklahoma and how “Eh Wah fought back with free representation from [their] public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, and recovered his cash.” Civil forfeiture is “a process that allows the government to take and keep cash, cars and other assets without a criminal conviction.”
In The Federalist, David Harsanyi wrote, “whereas Reagan promised Americans the power to build their own shiny cities on hills, Obama promised endless dependency and handouts.” Harsanyi also wrote, “Obama ruled the nation by regulatory regime and pen. That frustration surely contributed to the rise of Donald Trump.” Stephen Collinson wrote in CNN Politics that GOP presidential “hopefuls have been wary of criticizing the ex-president for fear of alienating... Republican voters who were satisfied with his presidency and believe he is being persecuted.”
Sam Patten writing for The Spectator quoted the Roman historian Tacitus: “The more corrupt the society, the more numerous the laws.” Patten also wrote, “relying solely on legalism to mete out justice and effect political outcomes will in all likelihood leave us even more disappointed.” In RealClearPolitics, Bill King wrote that the author Paul Hobby suggests “that a moderate is not someone who splits the difference on every issue but rather someone who applies a certain mindset and methodology to issues.”
Yesterday in Spiked, Tom Slater opened his article with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.” He then wrote that King “situated the civil-rights struggle not simply as a demand for dignity and rights for black Americans, but as a leap towards a colour-blind society”.
Six days ago, Taylor Moore of In These Times wrote about how the new Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson “has steadily pushed forward with Treatment Not Trauma, a grassroots coalition-led proposal to replace police officers with mental health clinicians for 911 calls relating to mental health crises and homelessness.”