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☆ For Nikki Haley, Opportunity Knocks Again
  + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Review and Outlook: Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips fears President Biden could lose to Donald Trump, and he’s right. Images: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyManchester, N.H.You might say Nikki Haley has an exceptional sense of timing, or that she possesses the most valuable political gift of all: luck. That’s not to diminish the former South Carolina governor’s political skill or competence; it’s to point out that at crucial moments in her career, things have gone her way—either because she took the right opportunities at the right time, or because those opportunities fell into her lap, or both. Probably both.
Persons: Dean Phillips, Biden, Donald Trump, Mark Kelly Manchester, Nikki Haley, That’s Organizations: AFP, Getty Locations: Minnesota, South Carolina
☆ The Marxian Roots of Campus Anti-Semitism
  + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
After Hamas's atrocities in Israel, one would expect universal condemnation from U.S. college administrators. The University of Florida's Ben Sasse showed Harvard how to do it. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyIf you thought claims of anti-Semitism on university campuses were exaggerated, you can’t think it after the past week. The spectacle was appalling: university presidents responding to the murder of hundreds of Jews by pretending that the fault lies partially with Israel and that reasonable people can differ over whether Hamas’s atrocities are justified; student groups issuing letters proclaiming solidarity with Hamas; campus protesters brandishing signs bearing such slogans as “resistance is justified” and “from the river to the sea”—the latter signifying the goal of extirpating all Jews from Israel.
Persons: Florida's Ben Sasse, Mark Kelly Organizations: The University, Florida's, Harvard, Getty Locations: Israel
☆ Joe Biden’s ‘Iron Grip’ on His Party
  + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Wonder Land: One of the two parties has no intention of losing with these two front runners. How could those who claim to esteem traditional moral values—monogamy chief among them—support a profane libertine like Mr. Trump? The implicit charge was that socially conservative Christians cared more about political ends than about moral values. Their political ends were perfectly consistent with the values they purported to hold, even if the agent through whom they sought to promote those values (Mr. Trump) didn’t exhibit them. And anyway I’m not sure what choice socially conservative religious voters had on Election Day in 2016.
Persons: Mark Kelly, Donald Trump, Trump, Hillary Clinton Organizations: Getty
☆ Peter Huntsman Is a CEO Who Doesn’t Equivocate About Climate
  + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-ceo-who-doesnt-equivocate-about-climate-global-warming-net-zero-emissions-ceo-corporate-e21a5d40
Persons: Dow Jones
☆ The American Left’s Fantastic Threats
  + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-american-lefts-fantastic-beasts-progressives-abortion-voting-book-ban-842c0d65
Persons: Dow Jones
☆ Harlan Crow Is ‘Collateral Damage’ of a Smear Campaign Against Clarence Thomas
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: Reuters/Shutterstock Composite: Mark KellyDallasAmerican politics lately feels like an endless game of—pardon the infelicitous word—delegitimation. The aim isn’t to convince voters that a political adversary is wrong or misguided, or even that he’s stupid or lying. It’s to assure the like-minded that he has no legitimate place in the public square and to drive him out if possible.
☆ ‘The Big Con’ Review: The Conquering Consultants
  + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
The big management-consulting companies practically ask to be hated. They are famously awash in money paid to them by governments and giant corporations, they are staffed and run largely by graduates of elite universities, and nobody seems to know what they do. The political left, it’s fair to say, is more ambivalent about consultancies. On the one hand, the Ivy Leaguers who do so much of these firms’ work tend strongly leftward in politics. And of course consultancies frequently contract with governments to generate exactly the sort of tidy, “data driven” solutions knowledge-class liberals and progressives find persuasive.
☆ David McCormick and the Search for a Republican Message
  + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
PhiladelphiaVarious factions of the American right have in recent years become adept in the art of blaming each other for the Republican Party’s travails. Trump-influenced protectionists blame free-marketeers for selling out the working class to Chinese manufacturing. Pro-business establishmentarians fault the Trumpians for alienating suburban moderates. Libertarians and nationalists denounce “neocons” for entangling America in costly and futile wars.
☆ Why the Right Turned Left
  + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WashingtonOn the American right, from 1980 to 2016 the basic principles held: limited government, low taxation. There were departures, to be sure. “We have a responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move,” George W. Bush said in 2003, shortly before signing into law a Medicare expansion passed by a GOP Congress. But the ideal toward which conservatives were striving—that remained.
☆ Jim Webb on Echoes of Vietnam, 50 Years Later
  + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Arlington, Va. When I was a teenager in the 1980s, popular culture had basically one message on the Vietnam War: that it was conceived in American arrogance, was perpetrated by American savages, and accomplished little but psychological devastation and national disgrace. Francis Ford Coppola ’s “Apocalypse Now” (1979), Oliver Stone ’s “Platoon” (1986) and “Born on the Fourth of July” (1989), Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” (1987), Brian De Palma ’s “Casualties of War” (1989)—these and a thousand other productions, documentaries and articles told my generation that the war had been a gigantic fiasco that turned those who fought it into war criminals and frowning, guilt-ridden drug addicts.
☆ ‘Adam Smith’s America’ Review: Wealth of a Nation
  + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Admirers of Adam Smith may be surprised to learn that there is an entire academic industry dedicated to the proposition that the great Scottish economist was not a proponent of free-market capitalism. Scholarly articles on Smith and the economic ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment frequently contain lengthy explanations of how he really didn’t promote amoral capitalism and unfettered markets but believed rather in a virtuous society that placed moral concerns above the market. Academic debates aside, the basic point about Smith’s economic views isn’t in doubt. They recruited Smith, in other words, to make the case against central planning and high taxation. His metaphor of an invisible hand, in their view—the self-interested merchant going about his business is “led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention”—exploded the fantasy that faraway planners were best equipped to create widespread prosperity.
☆ Why the ‘Smart’ Party Never Learns
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
The most obvious change in American politics this century is the sorting of voters along educational lines. The Democrats are increasingly the party of educated urban elites; the GOP belongs to the white working class. The latter still plump mostly for Democrats, although the party’s social radicalism is pushing them toward the GOP. Voters with impressive educational credentials tend to be Democrats, and those without them lean strongly Republican. Adherents of the smart-people party have lost the capacity for self-criticism.
☆ Ohio Senate Race Pits Awkward Populist vs. Smooth Politico
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Barton Swaim | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/articles/awkward-populist-vs-smooth-politico-tim-ryan-jd-vance-ohio-campaign-midterms-election-polls-congressman-senator-11663964743
☆ The Weekend Interview
  + stars: | 2022-09-09 | by ( Mene Ukueberuwa | Holman W. Jenkins | James Taranto | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
BlackRock and other giant firms use your money to advance ESG ideas you may not agree with, even if you own index funds. Vivek Ramaswamy has brought an alternative to the market.
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