Lights…Camera…Action! It has recently come to light that the President’s team, after a nervous glance at private polling, has discovered an alarming problem with its immigration policy. The problem readers will be relieved to learn is not violence,...
American Responsibility In The Age of Donald Trump Are We Up To The Task? The world has developed an unfortunate new habit: pausing mid-breath whenever the President of the United States opens his mouth. This is not due to awe, reverence, or the thrill of...
Does Donald Trump Ever Operate with High-Level Principles? It is a testament to modern leadership that the appearance of legitimacy has finally been liberated from the inconvenience of actually earning it. Donald Trump, ever the pragmatist, is reportedly content with...
Trump’s Presidential Finger It was once thought—naively, perhaps—that the highest office in the land carried with it certain ceremonial burdens: restraint, dignity, and the faint ability to endure being disliked without resorting to hand gestures learned in...
Can we not recognize tyranny when we see it? Can we also not forget that when tyranny comes, it is accompanied by hardship and poverty? In our country today, we have a most useful class of citizens whose chief talent lies in mistaking delay for wisdom and surrender...
Donald Trump’s Oh-So-Slippery Tariffs There was a time when bananas were simple. They arrived quietly, ripened obediently, and asked nothing of the consumer beyond a modest place on the counter. Under Donald Trump’s stewardship of trade policy, however, even the...