To be sure, when President Donald Trump tore up the Trans-Pacific Partnership at the beginning of his term—a free-trading agreement and the capstone of an American-led democrat-trending order in Asia—he left the Eurasian supercontinent with only one big, overarching idea: that of the Belt and Road Initiative.

If only Spieler were as fond of buses for Houston

** But his deeper argument is that, by adhering to a classically liberal concept of a neutral public square, “Frenchism” makes too many concessions to progressives who demand that traditional conservatives bend a knee to their moral demands.**

Not entirely fair. The point is that the neutral public square is being eviscerated, and conservatives had best do something besides stand around and pretend otherwise. Not sire I fully buy into the argument, but it's gaining in popularity and deserves a fair hearing rather than mischaracterization

crazy

The IDW is quickly turning into a passing fad, with surprisingly narrow boundaries of acceptable thoughts, words, and company.

J.R. understands that by choosing not to vaccinate, she exposes her child and others’ to a certain risk, and she vows that in the event of a case of measles at Green Meadow, she would keep him home. But she is firm that forcing her to choose between vaccination and the school is not a solution. She worked for a time at a gun-violence-prevention organization and believes the right not to vaccinate is a little like the right to bear arms. “If we’re going to live in a social compact,” she says, “we have to agree that we’re sometimes going to hurt each other.”

// wow. some libs are truly insane.

So I decided shortly after to start a competing project, which I intended to be just one single large volume that emulated Arthur Schlesinger’s Age of Roosevelt—not biography as such but an ensemble political chronicle with Reagan as its main character—but when Morris finally came out with the insane and bizarre Dutch, it was so incompetent and inadequate that my project expanded and became two volumes, which is almost unheard of today for any American author not named “Robert Caro.” It ended up dominating ten years of my life—maybe the best ten years of it, though, because nothing was as fun as that. Had Deaver and Nancy Reagan picked David McCulloch (he was under consideration) instead, I doubt I ever would have taken up the subject.

// Though not a true biography, Hayward's two-volume effort remains the best political biography/chronology of Reagan - just stellar. Wish we could get him to town to lecture.

Fixed that headline. Braddock is garbage