Pulitzer Prize Finalist historian, NYT best selling author, CEO Freedom's Forge Solutions LLC. Senior Fellow, Civitas Institute. RT not =endorsement
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13 Aug 2022
What's the key difference between our two political parties? Republicans play politics, Democrats exercise power.
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Jun 9
Gordon S. Wood, a Historian Who Loved America / by @jackbutler4815 wsj.com/opinion/gordon-s-woo… via @WSJopinion
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I know @jawillick polls never change. Esp the ones that show Trump's approval in a slump.
Jun 9
Trump has actually eroded deterrence vis Iran long term because future presidents are going to look at this political price and not pay it again.
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Excellent essay. This is why my wife Beth and I composed this @FoxNewsOpinion piece on how Classical Studies can be our guardrail with AI:
foxnews.com/opinion/classica…
Jun 9
"Using AI well, however, is less about achieving technical proficiency and more about becoming the kind of person who can master these powerful tools without becoming enslaved to them."
Fickley & Perkins: AI in Schools Makes Students Fools wsj.com/opinion/free-express… via @WSJFreeEx
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Arthur Herman retweeted
Jun 9
Unlawful taking. Period.
Jun 8
Zohran Mamdani says he’ll take “aggressive legal action” to seize buildings from negligent private landlords and transfer them to nonprofits and tenant associations.
New York tried this 50 years ago — it didn’t work.
In the 70s and 80s, NYC seized thousands of abandoned properties, spent ~$10.6b managing them, and gave many of them to nonprofits. Living conditions deteriorated (77% of city-managed units had rats), and city-appointed landlords fell behind on payments.
Old buildings deteriorate and need money to be fixed; changing a building’s owner doesn’t change its economics. The real issue here is rent regulation, which sharply limits legal rent increases; NYC’s progressive left either doesn’t know or hasn’t acknowledged history, and as @JKetcham91 argues, Mamdani is exploiting their ignorance to build his political base.
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California's failure is liberalism's failure.
The conceit that government knows best and can solve every problem, sinks into a cesspool of fraud and corruption.
And not just in California.
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That is IMO Trump's broader strategy.
At NSC I worked on a broad China strategy during his first term. That focused on high-tech incl 5G.
Now energy is the key focus in this second term.
Also, both war and politics are the art of the possible. If we could remove or render Xi Jinping and his communist cronies impotent, we would certainly be wise to consider it.
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This reductio ad absurdum is obviously not a serious post @jawillick.
For one thing--only one--neither Russia nor China make "death to America" part of their raison d'etre as regimes.
Jun 9
What about with Putin in control of Russia or the CCP in control of China—much more powerful countries. Do we have to replace those governments too for America to be secure?
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Arthur Herman retweeted
Jun 8
Gordon Wood, R.I.P.
The great American historian died yesterday at 92. He spoke at @Hillsdale just three months ago.
Read this excellent remembrance by @NicXTempore.
thelampmagazine.com/blog/gor…
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It's also possible he couldn't move fast enough to run away.
Jun 8
He also had journalists unironically calling him "the word made flesh."
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A terrible shame he won't be for the 250th.
Jun 8
RIP. What a great talent.
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Truly a great loss: and on the eve of the 250th, as well!
Jun 8
Just awful
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Excuse me, Scottish diaspora.
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Arthur Herman retweeted
Jun 8
Francisco de Zurbarán at the Louvre Museum this autumn
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Two I miss:
1) Rush Limbaugh.
2) Scott Adams.
Never a boring lunchtime.
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No brainer.
Jun 8
Maine should be a slam dunk for Republicans.
The party must rally behind Collins.
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Imagine being Susan Collins right now.
You've served the state of Maine for almost 30 yrs.
You've crossed the aisle when you believed you had to, for the good of your country.
You've earned respect of Dems and GOP colleagues.
And polls have you tied w/a man with a Nazi tattoo.
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Arthur Herman retweeted
Jun 8
The greatest historian of the American Founding has died. No one will ever surpass his influence or impact on the field. It's a sad day.
Jun 8
Gordon Wood has died!
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Arthur Herman retweeted
Jun 8
Becoming an “October 8th Christian" on Campus/
By @Pete4CA / Pete Peterson of @pepperdine
realclearreligion.org/articl…
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Always important goals for Danes and other Scandinavians.
I mean…. Only if you want them to be cool, productive, and thin
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Inexplicable. Except in the context of "the only moral boundaries I have are the ones social media sets for me."
Jun 8
Very depressing. Having a tattoo of an Israel flag would be disqualifying b/c it would mean Platner supported genocide, but having a Nazi tattoo of the people who actually worked the death camps doesn't represent supporting genocide? Someone please explain this.
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