The perennial vilification of ever-sinister capitalism by progressives in the academy and the media, who in turn extol the virtues of utopian socialism, has led to a war not so much of ideas as of expletives. Before the accumulated debris of connotations all but obliterates rational discourse, a conceptual reboot must be performed before the […]
America First but not America Over Others
When Donald Trump states that our nation’s interests come first, he is indeed following in the Founders’ footsteps. Putting American self-interest first does not, though, imply a crassly selfish or imperialistic disregard for the interests and rights of other nations. When the newly anointed president of the United States proclaimed that it was now time […]
