The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, by David McCullough This is a typical McCullough book–a great story, easy to read, educational, and fun. It tells the story of the settlement and development of the Northwest Territory of the U. S. through the experiences and legacy of several […]
The Texas Pilgrim Book Update
In case you’re wondering, my book, The Texas Pilgrim: 20 Years of Reflection and Commentary, is not sold out and Amazon is ready to take your order. Just go to my web site, www.texaspilgrim.com, and click on the book cover. And when you’ve read it, please write a review for Amazon. Of note, if you are […]
The Mueller Cover Up
Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally appeared before Congress to testify on his written report on Trump/Russian “collusion”, we can now confirm what I and others said and wrote when the written report was released in April–this investigation has been a trumped-up (no pun intended) fraud from the beginning, and the Attorney General’s […]
Your Turn, Mr. Prime Minister
Now the British Tories have spoken, Queen Elizabeth has confirmed, and Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister of the UK. We will now see if Mr. Johnson can Brexit, or will he follow the failure of the last two of his predecessors and possibly, God forbid, default to a Jeremy Corbin-led Labor government. He […]
Challenging Conservative Economic Faith
The chattering and intellectual crowd of conservatives, through conferences, panels, and periodicals, has begun to seriously discuss what conservatism will look like after Donald Trump. For a good example of this phenomenon, see “Capitalism Under Fire” in the May 2019 edition of The Texas Pilgrim. Further in that vein, Oren Cass, Senior Fellow at the […]
Good for Amazon
One of the many boondoggles of government incompetence and worthless spending has been the Job Corps, which for 55 years has provided vocational training to enrollees from impoverished backgrounds. But according to most observers, this $1.7 billion per year program has not produced the results intended. Graduates often end up in low-skill and low-wage jobs […]
The Rise of the “Disrupters”
Gerald Seib writes in The Wall Street Journal that it makes sense that, in an age of technological disruption, it figures that the most important trend in international politics is the rise of disruption in our traditional political system. And, of course, the disrupter-in-chief is Donald Trump, who has now been joined by the new […]
Letter from Europe
My wife and I just returned from a 25-day cruise from Amsterdam to Bucharest through the Rhine, Maine, and Danube rivers, including a variety of stops and onshore excursions in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania. And, while our access to e-mail and Internet was decent along the way, my current feed of […]
Much More Than a Trade War
This week will mark two significant anniversaries of world-changing events. The D-Day invasion of the allies on June 6, 1944 to free Europe from the Nazis was a peak of the American Century, for at the point of victory over national socialism followed by the defeat of Japanese militarism, the United States stood unchallenged as […]
Is Socialism Truly Making a Comeback?
In an American Spectator article in 1976 entitled “Socialism: An Obituary for an Idea”, Irving Kristol wrote “The most important political event of the twentieth century is not the crisis of capitalism but the death of socialism. It is an event of immense significance. For with the passing of the socialist ideal there is removed […]
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