The Forgotten Infrastructure Projects of 2021

President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan is encountering major obstacles as many legislators find questionable items in the bill that have no link with improving public works. This spending spree goes beyond the media-friendly projects like replacing bridges and lead pipes. It includes disguised pork in the form of senior care aid, hospital bailouts and … Read more

How Bravely Embracing Suffering Can Lead to Joy

In Virgil’s Roman epic poem, The Aeneid, there is a famous scene when a terrible storm washes up the protagonist Aeneas and his men on the shores of Carthage. The crew is bruised, battered and discouraged by its misfortunes. The men are tempted to give up. Aeneas encourages them, concluding with one of the epic’s … Read more

How the Left Is Turning the Simple Voting Process into Class Warfare

The voting reform bill called H.R. 1 highlights the need to facilitate voting for Americans. Few citizens would find fault for promoting such a noble goal. However, the debate takes on bizarre overtones. The left attempted to turn voting into rocket science when it actually involves grade school skills like identifying oneself and signing one’s … Read more

America Must Go Beyond Wishful Thinking About China

America and the West’s policy of “constructive engagement” with Communist China make up the most egregious case of wishful thinking in history. For almost fifty years, the West pumped trillions of dollars into the Chinese experiment and now has little to show for it except a much stronger China. Fortunately, many Americans are now waking … Read more

“Hero Pay” Rewards Workers by Removing Their Jobs

California leads the nation in implementing liberal economic schemes. The concentration of the entertainment industry means that California’s attitudes often influence other parts of the country. One such scheme is the idea of “hero pay.” Many Southern California cities decreed that “essential” grocery workers be granted an extra four to five dollars an hour in … Read more

Why Public School Students Sing Religious Chants to Aztec gods

For five years, California has been constructing a new “Ethnic Studies” curriculum. Leftists in the schools have long used such programs for training young “social justice warriors.” For generations, they cloaked these efforts behind catchphrases like “fightingcensorship,” “academic freedom,” and the grandfather of them all, “separation of Church and State.” This new curriculum hides less … Read more

Pope Francis’s “Abrahamic Religions”

During his Iraq trip (March 5–8), Pope Francis said more than once that Abraham is at the root of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. On arriving, he told civil authorities that he was coming to that land “linked through the Patriarch Abraham and a number of the Prophets” to the religious traditions “of Judaism, Christianity and … Read more