Another day another tech company announces a terrific new perk for its employees. Etsy – the online retailer – has announced a generous parental leave policy, allowing employees 26 weeks of paid leave divided between 8 weeks right after birth or adoption and another 18 over the first two years of the child’s life. Etsy […]
“I don’t think Donald Trump is doomsday,” says Mark Cunningham. “All the Hilter, fascist, authoritarian talk is wildly over the top.” What a relief and a pleasure to interview Cunningham, Editorial Page Editor of the New York Post. You see, unlike just about every other conservative Republican at the moment, Cunningham isn’t freaking out about […]
“Two weeks from tonight right here in Florida we are going to send a message. The presidency of the United States will never be held by a con artist.” This was the defiant, never-say-die rhetoric of Senator Marco Rubio last night in Miami. Wishful thinking, it seems, though. The news Tuesday night wasn’t good for […]
“Are you a native or a mover?” This was the question I got asked most often over the course of a weekend spent at the Liberty Forum in Manchester, New Hampshire. It was a natural inquiry given that the conference sponsor, the Free State Project, is a grass-roots effort to get 20,000 libertarians to voluntarily […]
Be honest, you want to be on team Apple. There are the stores and all the products. In those terrific TV advertisements pitting Apple vs. PC, people identified with Apple, no contest. Same for choosing a side between Apple and Microsoft. Apple is synonymous with cool, new, beautiful, and fun. But which side do you […]
Nearly 40 years ago political scientist Jeanne Kirkpatrick wrote an analysis of US foreign policy for Commentary Magazine entitled, Dictatorships & Double Standards, which served to define President Ronald Reagan’s successful foreign policy. Pulitzer Prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens discusses the Kirkpatrick doctrine’s relevance four decades later with CapX US Editor Abby […]
Are Americans engaged in a soft civil war? So concludes the Manhattan Institute’s Fred Siegel in a devastating piece entitled, “The House Divided” in City Journal. Siegel, whose topic is the breakdown in confidence in our public institutions, is not alone in his assessment. Glenn Reynolds’ latest column for USA Today dealt with a similar theme […]
John Podhoretz, editor of the conservative monthly Commentary Magazine, columnist for the New York Post, and movie critic for The Weekly Standard, offers his insights and analysis on what is already an unprecedented political campaign for the presidency of the United States. He spoke with Abby W. Schachter, US editor of CapX. We seem to […]
President Obama had one really memorable line during last night’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. “It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse,” he admitted. Given that Obama himself is nearly single-handedly responsible for all that […]
In his latest piece for The Atlantic Magazine, chairman of the reform coalition Common Good Philip K. Howard writes about the need for a negotiated bargain between Congressional Democrats and Republicans to reform and pay for needed infrastructure repair. Howard, who has written persuasively and often about the need for common sense regulatory and judicial […]
Instead of running for president, Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan is trying to move the election campaign in a different direction – from immigration and anger to poverty and economic opportunity. This past weekend he and Sen. Tim Scott hosted the Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity, Named for Ryan’s political mentor and one-time […]
Hillary Clinton gave her first interview of 2016 and to be expected it was with a friendly interviewer, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Of course a sit-down with the person most likely to be the first female candidate for president doesn’t mean anyone actually watched it given that network’s ratings. Clinton offered few details on how she […]
A subject that hasn’t come up nearly enough during the presidential campaign thus far is economic mobility. Marco Rubio talks about his family’s rise from humble circumstances to his run for the presidency and Hillary Clinton wants to help the middle class, certainly. But the reason we may not hear enough about solving poverty and […]
As Democrats prepare for their weekend debate, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Mike O’Malley should only hope to have as substantive and yes combative a debate as the GOP candidates provided on Tuesday night in Las Vegas. [Note to O’Malley and Sanders: You might want to respond to Clinton’s (truthful) claim that Obamacare pushes people […]
Over the seven years of Barack Obama’s presidency, there have been numerous occasions when those who long for limited government and restrained use of presidential power have gnashed their teeth at the current brazen occupant of the Oval Office. Now, as liberal legal eagle Jonathan Turley points out in a column for the Washington Post, […]
Economic historian Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is completing work on an epic trilogy called “The Bourgeois Era” – the final installment of which Bourgeois Equality: How ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world will be published by University of Chicago Press in April […]
For a sense of how negatively capitalism is regarded in the popular culture, consider the eulogizing for Doug Tomkins, 72, who died following a kayaking accident in Chile. “We are all deeply saddened at the news of Doug’s passing. Doug was a passionate advocate for the environment, and his legacy of conservation will help ensure […]
“There is one conclusion to be drawn from this contretemps that is not open to debate: Trump has done an enormous favor for President Obama and Hillary Clinton,” declares Commentary Magazine’s Jonathan Tobin. Tobin is perfectly correct that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump sounding like xenophobic isolationist should be the gift that keeps on giving to […]
As presidential campaigning heats up, we are hearing less and less about areas of common ground between those on the political right and the political left. It is especially important therefore to mark the areas where the trend is moving in a more cooperative direction. Zoning is an area where more and more economic and […]
President Obama is dealing with another case of domestic terrorism, while all 14 Republicans who want to replace him in the oval office were gathering nearby in Washington, DC to appeal for support among Jewish voters especially for their vision of American foreign policy. Mr. Obama, as ever, has a hard time with the facts, […]
