David Byler published a very good piece in which he comes back on the theory that, as a result of demographic change, American politics was headed to a permanent Democratic majority. It was made popular by John Judis and Run Texeira’s book, The Emerging Democratic…
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In my post on slavery and capitalism, I mention Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s view that, despite what some people have claimed, slavery was actually economically efficient and it wasn’t abolished because it was not profitable. A survey of economists…
Sean Trende and David Byler recently published a series of posts on RealClearPolitics in which they analyze the results of the presidential election and put them in historical context. Among people who are paid to talk about politics, Trende is…
As Trump seems determined to move the Dakota Access Pipeline forward, the controversy about this project is bound to reignite. I used to be agnostic on the merits of the claims made by the opponents of the project until after it was halted,…
The Obama administration spent billions of dollars to overhaul the nation’s worst schools and, according to a study produced by the federal government, it didn’t produce any significant results. As the author of the article notes, this will no doubt help DeVos…