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Michael Barone

It’s not exactly Trump’s Republican Party
05/24/2022 - 10:04pm
Michael Barone
This Week's Conservative Focus . . . Politics Is it Donald Trump’s Republican Party? You can make the case it is, as partisan Democrats do, from the victories of various candidates endorsed by the former president in Republican primaries. But it’s not an airtight case, and Trump’s batting average is inflated by the dozens of endorsements he has made of incumbents with no...
The verdict on lockdowns: High cost, minimal benefits
Michael Barone 04/16/2022 - 8:35pm
PANDEMIC: April 15, 2022 What were the benefits and costs of the COVID-19 restrictions implemented over the last two years? It’s a good time to ask that question, especially now that the masks are coming off and the lockdowns are canceled. ONE USEFUL scorecard comes from the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research, in the form of a...
Turning a corner, away from excessive risk aversion
Michael Barone 04/04/2022 - 8:51pm
PANDEMIC: April 1, 2022 It feels like we’re turning a corner. Since the beginning of the calendar year, a lot of things have changed. More importantly, a lot of minds have changed as well. The world and the nation don’t look like they used to, and don’t seem likely to again any time soon. CONSIDER the masks. On New Year’s...
Another party hack president
Michael Barone 03/25/2022 - 7:14pm
BIDEN PRESIDENCY: March 25, 2022 “The language people speak in the corridors of power is not economics or politics. It is history.” So says former Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, quoted in a column on Ukraine by historian Niall Ferguson. THUS Democratic insiders and sympathetic journalists liked to describe President Joe Biden as...
Ukraine suggests dangers of the Eurasian heartland axis
Michael Barone 03/19/2022 - 5:56pm
UKRAINE: March 18, 2022 “Who rules the Heartland rules the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the world.” So wrote the geography professor and occasional member of Parliament Halford Mackinder in his 1919 book “Democratic Ideals and Reality.” MACKINDER’S Heartland was vaguely defined to include the...
Ukraine shows we live in a nationalist world
Michael Barone 03/14/2022 - 10:43pm
UKRAINE: March 11, 2022 It turns out that we live in a nationalist world. That’s one of the lessons people are learning from the surprise early results of the Russo-Ukrainian war. THIS IS certainly not a welcome development for Davos Man — for the leaders of great international agencies, financial institutions and corporations that...
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