Outside the Beltway

And weak parties, too.

Dictating the curriculum from on high.

The state of being too big to care.

We have a problem, but we aren’t even trying to address it.

Some empirical insights into American partisan politics.

The Nick Fuentes phenomenon.

A majority describe the morality and ethics of their fellow citizens as “bad.”

Enough is never enough.

The crazy world of luxury timepieces.

Who needs fancy book learnin’ if you already have all the answers?

What does God need with a starship?

“He that spits against the Wind, spits in his own Face.”

Looking backwards in the energy sector.

Liberty may be natural to the individual, but political liberty remains an uncommon achievement.

The Trump administration treats personally disfavored American institutions the way past administrations treated foreign adversaries. His goal is political submission.

The Democrats are in a good place heading into their convention.

“Dr. Ruth” is gone at 96.

The psychologist who won a Nobel in economics is gone at 90.

The food is too damn high!

If we’re even bowling at all.

Group dynamics and limited choices.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

Continued disjunctures between perceptions and the indicators.

It’s . . . complicated.

His lawyers and Democratic lawmakers are urging an exception.