There are fears that statues of Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi in the UK could be toppled after both were named in a Welsh government report reviewing historical figures as “complicit” in colonialism and slavery.
I hope it’s the former. The Wall Street Journal has 6 crossword puzzles a week and I clip them and fill them out when I have spare time or at night when I’m trying to get to sleep.
Edward P. Lazear, a pioneering labor economist at Stanford University who advised President George W. Bush during the financial crisis, died on Monday. He was 72.
Despite everything that the United States has gone through in 2020, former U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch says that he is “intensely optimistic about what’s ahead.” What gives him hope about America’s future? It’s that “every challenge we’ve faced—from Valley Forge to Covid-19—has only made us stronger and more resilient as a nation.”
Hoover Institution fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Shelby Steele discuss Steele's important new documentary film, What Killed Michael Brown? and the central role of white guilt in American liberalism.
Over the weekend, I finally got around to catching Eli Steele’s new documentary, my procrastination done in by the fact that Victor Davis Hanson and I will be discussing it tomorrow with Eli’s father, Shelby Steele, the film’s writer and narrator, on the next episode of The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast.
The year 2020 will not be remembered as a year of progress. But we shouldn’t forget that people in the 21st century are wealthier and freer than at any other time in history. As we approach the holiday season, let’s explore the many reasons we should be thankful, even in 2020.
