Author: Barry Fagin

Here’s a crazy idea: Just because liberals like something doesn’t mean conservatives have to hate it. If our politics were healthy, we’d understand this intuitively. When considering possible legislation, we wouldn’t ask “What do our opponents think?” We’d ask questions like “What are the facts?” and “How does this comport with America’s tradition of securing…

HR 6090 easily cleared the House of Representatives a month or so ago. It awaits an uncertain future in the Senate. This bill directs the Department of Education to add a certain definition of antisemitism as an arrow in its quiver when investigating violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on…

Caitlin Clark makes less money than LeBron James. About 700 times less if my figures are right. That’s not good, right or fair. Then again, it’s also not bad, wrong or unfair. It’s what happens when you let people decide for themselves how to spend their money. Similarly, female athletes earn less than male athletes,…

“To a bureaucrat with a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. This well-known aphorism has never been proven more true than under the Federal Trade Commission’s Lina Khan, appointed by President Joe Biden in 2021. For some reason, liberal intellectuals continue to believe in their superior economic and moral judgment, compared to what happens when…

What’s more important, what a person says, or what they do? While it’s best when words and deeds match up, if we have to pick, I think we’d go with deeds. “Actions speak louder than words,” and all that. This is something people of all political persuasions should agree on. So I’m bothered by the…

As a never-Trumper and a small-l libertarian, I’ll probably hold my nose and vote for Joe Biden in the fall. But boy, he and his party keep acting like they really don’t care about socially liberal, pro-capitalism voters like me. Witness the latest “shrinkflation” fiasco. If they want to demonstrate a complete lack of economic…