One of the most interesting climate change points to me that is never mentioned by President Biden and all the existential threat crowd is just how well the United States has done in cutting carbon emissions in the last 20 years. They never talk about it. Don’t you think that’s odd?
The founder of modern economics, Adam Smith, was no fan of the merchants of his time. He regarded them as among the most responsible for how “the mercantile system,” as Smith called it, accorded legal privileges to politically connected producers over the interests of consumers.
For weeks now, there has been virtually no other news but the energy crunch that surprised Europe in September and has since then gone on to roil every market and industry and spur fears of blackouts, astronomical utility bills, and rising food prices.
Identity politics has engulfed America’s cultural landscape like a tsunami. Unsure how to escape its destructive path, Americans feel like deer caught in the headlights, on a road paved with eggshells. This divisive ideology—steeply rooted in Marxism and fueled by racial narratives—has spread like wildfire through America’s most cherished institutions. Anyone who resists it or dares question the motives of its doctrines or disciples—Critical Race Theory and the Black Lives Matter movement, for example—is dismissed as a racist.
For years, America’s corporate, political, media, and educational leaders have urged businesses to weigh in on political issues. However, this strategy often backfires, as we saw when National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver banned social justice promotion on the court after the 2020 season—saying he was responding to customers—and when Chick-fil-A faced liberal distrust and conservative anger when it stopped donating to the Salvation Army.
