Inflation and Memory

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — June 10^th 2024 at 11:33

Biden packed roughly as much inflation into three years as there had been in the previous ten.

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Immigration: The Path Biden Rejected

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — June 10^th 2024 at 11:06

‘Biden’s immigration mistakes stand out . . . for their needlessness. . . .’

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Put Out More Flag Stories

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 31^st 2024 at 15:07

There’s a widening gap between people who are obsessed with politics and people who are completely disengaged from it.

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No Bragging Rights

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 31^st 2024 at 13:29

One of the weirder lines being trotted out today is that everyone who said Alvin Bragg’s case was weak owes him an apology.

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The Capone Analogy

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 31^st 2024 at 11:22

The Capone conviction was not like the Trump conviction.

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Has the Trial Hurt Trump?

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 28^th 2024 at 14:28

Some dirty tricks backfire.

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The End of Roe: The Young-Adult Version

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 28^th 2024 at 09:15

Readers will have to slog through a lot of overwriting to get the story in a new book about Roe being overturned.

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Justice Thomas’s Views on Brown v. Board Are Being Distorted

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 24^th 2024 at 15:11

It’s pernicious nonsense to say that Thomas was suggesting segregation is constitutional.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks in his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2016.

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The Inflation Story Is Not about Supply Shortages

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 24^th 2024 at 12:47

Milton Friedman’s famous claim has a lot more explanatory power than the Left’s theory of corporate greed.

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The Problem of Central Bank Independence

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 24^th 2024 at 12:44

The Fed can be made more politically accountable while also being free from presidential interference if Congress gives clearer guidance.

Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse participate in a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 10, 2023.

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Why Haley Didn’t Ask Anything from Trump

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 24^th 2024 at 11:08

“A lot of Haley’s voters were not so much pro-her as anti-Trump.”

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Where the College Protests Are, and Aren’t, Happening

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 24^th 2024 at 11:06

“At private colleges, protests have been rare, encampments have been rarer. . .”

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The Successful (and Bipartisan) Failure of Tariffs

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — May 21^st 2024 at 10:30

There’s a new report out from the U.S. trade representative’s office.