If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, I would argue that they’re missing the forest for the trees. I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.–Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in an interview with Anderson Cooper on […]
Know When to Fold ‘Em
The media and many other observers can’t abide a foreign policy “summit” without an “agreement”, as though the absence of one is a failure of the effort. Not so, as proven many times, most notably with Reagan at Reykjavik with Gorbachev. Likewise, I believe the recent meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un of […]
Special Announcement
Dear Friends and Subscribers: I am pleased to announce the impending publication of The Texas Pilgrim: 20 Years of Reflection and Commentary. The past 20 years have been a very special adventure for me and now, after over 200 monthly issues, and approaching 1,000 essays, the time has come to take stock of this project […]
The SOTU According to Trump
Pundits go into big stage events like the State of the Union address looking for headline “takeaways”, specific proposals that provoke or those that can guarantee surviving at least one news cycle. In this particular one last night, President Trump’s second, most were looking for a major pronouncement on the immigration stalemate and/or the declaration […]
A Very Shameful Truth
As I write, it remains to be seen whether or not Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam will be able to keep his job after the exposure of photos from his medical school yearbook showing him either in blackface or in KKK robes. But if he resigns, he should receive going away thanks for exposing a […]
Surprise, Surprise: We’re in a Culture War
A couple of weeks ago, Gerald Seib wrote, “The border wall fight is more than a border wall fight. It has crystallized a deep cultural divide, between those happy with the evolving face of America and those alarmed by it”. Well, duh, this has been the obvious state of affairs for the past 50 years, […]
The 2020 Madness Has Begun
The feeding frenzy of 2020 politics began when the polls closed on election day last November, so get ready for an often nauseating daily diet of who’s up, who’s down, who’s in, who’s out, particularly from the Democrats, who it appears might field a primary competition featuring as many as 20 or 25 candidates, most […]
On the Syria Pullout
As always with President Trump, if you don’t like one of his announced decisions, wait a couple of news cycles and he will have rethought, regrouped, and often changed course. And this now appears to be the case with his surprise announcement that all U. S. troops will immediately be pulled out of Syria, so […]
The Texas Education Challenge
As we begin the new year from a public policy standpoint, most politically observant eyes in Texas will be on the opening of the Texas Legislature under a new Speaker of the House, and many of those same eyes will be once again focused on what is to be done about public education finance, the […]
Cold War II Enters a New Phase
Last May I wrote of the importance of transformational leadership in negotiating the long-term strategic relationship between the U. S. and China in order to avoid what Graham Allison has named the “Thucydides Trap” in his compelling book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?. In October at the Hudson Institute, Vice […]
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