Author: David Harsanyi
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Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics head is a banana republic move
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save You’ve probably heard the urban legend about the 19th-century naturalist who spent his life traveling the world collecting insect species and then meticulously categorizing them. Long after he gained international fame, the old entomologist was…
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No, David French, we have no constitutional duty to subsidize Harvard
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Do taxpayers have a constitutional duty to bankroll Harvard University? On MSNBC, David French argued that the Trump administration’s defunding of Harvard is little more than “political retaliation.” In the United States, we don’t sentence people before…
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Losing the race: Crass identity politics isn’t what it used to be for Democrats
Judging people by their skin color is one of the most pernicious notions in American life. Years ago, this kind of noxious racialism was the province of Southern segregationists. Today, it is too often peddled by the progressive Left. The good news is that the 2024 presidential election showed us that Democrats’ rickety voting coalition,…
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Executive disorder
As Inauguration Day wound down, President Donald Trump held court on the stage at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., signing one executive order after the next, flinging presidential pens into the adoring crowd. This scene, I’m quite certain, isn’t how the founders envisioned U.S. governance playing out. Displays of republican virtue haven’t been trendy…