Essential reading --
Deirdre McCloskey summarizes her book - “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World,” - explaining the source of our fabulous wealth --
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-west-and-the-rest-got-rich-1463754427
Jonah Goldberg takes issue with one segment of McCloskey's piece --
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/435762/mccloskey-gets-eugenics-wrong?target=author&tid=897
Heather McDonald on the destructiveness of the BLM movement --
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-danger-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/
George Will's ideal inaugural address --
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435675/2017-presidential-inaugural-address-donald-trump
Rachel Lu --
To a considerable extent, we are witnessing the fruits of a progressive model of governance that keeps the Democratic party strong by ensuring that America isn’t. Progressives simultaneously push for a strong social safety net and a libertine moral agenda that erodes our social fabric, thus cementing voters’ reliance on the safety net the Democrats champion.
