Obama’s Entrepreneurial Lesson
From my article in Friday’s Wall Street Journal: If Barack Obama ran for president by calling for a heavier hand of government, he also won by running one of the most entrepreneurial campaigns in...
View Article2012?
Is Paul Ryan the future? After two straight electoral defeats, it is time for a substantial party shake-up. We don’t need a feather duster; we need a fire hose. We need to be honest about the root...
View Article“Palinonics”
Here at Maximum Entropy we focus on delivering “more signal, less noise,” and so this analysis of Sarah Palin’s unusual and incomprehensible speech really hits the mark: What we have to do instead is...
View ArticleThe Blago Revolt
Rich Karlgaard with a modest proposal: Pay politicians more! Give these takers the chance to become rich legally. Here is how. Let’s put every elected federal official and appointee and bureaucrat on a...
View ArticleThe Three-week Collapse
Larry Lindsey with a good summary of the quick confidence collapse in Obama’s new economic plans. The Geithner announcement was repeatedly put off while each of the options was publicly discussed. In...
View ArticleWill science restore the vibrant texture of American life?
Charles Murray asks whether America’s unique character, and its freedoms, can be preserved. He’s worried but, looking toward scientific rumblings that bear witness on crucial social and economic...
View ArticleThe Real Deal
We Hoosiers are lucky: Perhaps most appreciated was the governor’s overhaul of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. It’s gone from one of the worst in the country—a place, he says, “where people would take a...
View ArticleMy two cents on Trumpism
At the risk of wading into a swamp, here are a few thoughts on the phenomenon. We’ve seen lots of smart analyses trying to figure out how we got here, but if I were to distill my own analysis and...
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