Week in Review: The Downward Spiral

Presidents really only get to do one big thing, or maybe two. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. Franklin Roosevelt got his New Deal and joined the war against Adolf Hitler. Lyndon Johnson expanded the welfare state and signed into law a landmark civil-rights bill. George W. Bush wanted to be a school-reformer and...

December 03 2017

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The Downward Spiral Kevin D. Williamson Presidents really only get to do one big thing, or maybe two. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. Franklin Roosevelt got his New Deal and joined the war against Adolf Hitler. Lyndon Johnson expanded the welfare state and signed into law a landmark civil-rights bill. George W. Bush wanted to be a school-reformer and... READ MORE The Tax-Reform Debate and Defense Spending Jim Talent It looks very much as if, once again, the national defense is going to get the short end of the budgetary stick this year. But at least other events are exposing the pretenses that have kept the... Matt Lauer, Fox News, and How Tribalism Affects the Press Jonah Goldberg The ongoing cascade of sexual-harassment violations is fascinating for all sorts of reasons. But one thing has been nagging at me for a while and Patrick Ruffini put his finger on it this... ADVERTISEMENT Yes on Rubio-Lee The Editors The push for tax reform ran into last-minute complications in the Senate, as Republicans were arguing about the composition of the bill's tax cuts and searching for places to drum up more... Trump's in the Right in CFPB Tiff Andrew C. McCarthy Some legal questions are tough. The question of who should lawfully be considered the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is not one of them. President Trump... Baking a Cake Is Not Constitutionally Protected Speech George Will The conversation about a cake lasted less than a minute but will long reverberate in constitutional law. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear 60 minutes of speech about when, if at... The New York Times Does Its Best Super-PAC Impersonation Jonah Goldberg It was a crazy week, so you might have missed the news that the New York Times decided to operate like a super PAC. Here's what happened. The Times's editorial board changed the bio on the... ADVERTISEMENT To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age Robert Barron and John Allen 'Bishop Robert Barron is the most accomplished evangelist and catechist in the Catholic Church today. Everyone eager to help make Catholicism a "Church permanently in mission" should read this stimulating conversation. Everyone.' — George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning LEARN MORE Top Shots Los Angeles Auto Show ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.