Jimmy Carter is gone and his legacy is better than most of us realize

December 31, 2024

Jimmy Carter is gone and his legacy is better than most of us realize

In March 1976, Time magazine profiled a Democratic governor from Georgia who was making a long-shot bid for the presidency. A former peanut farmer, he was viewed as an oddity in progressive circles. He talked about his relationship with Jesus and promised not to tell a lie when (not if) he was elected president. Even […]

Jimmy Carter’s failed presidency did produce three sterling triumphs

One need not overstate the claims of Jimmy Carter’s supposed post-presidential saintliness or understate the failures of his presidency to recognize three of his signal achievements. Democrats customarily are heavy regulators, but Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, deregulated the air, truck, and rail industries very much to the public’s benefit. Carter […]

Biden’s legacy will never match his team’s delusions

President Joe Biden and his team are trapped in their own delusions about what his legacy will be when the reality is that Biden will never be remembered as anything more than a failure. Biden’s team and supporters flocked to the Washington Post to lament that voters just did not respect his “substance,” as Rep. […]

Trump’s TikTok Christmas present to Chinese intelligence

President-elect Donald Trump has given the Chinese intelligence services a big Christmas present by petitioning the Supreme Court to delay the enforced sale or suspension of TikTok. TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, the United States’s preeminent adversary. Trump’s petition asserts that he “opposes banning TikTok […]

In defense of a ‘normal’ work ethic

Almost everyone has an opinion about work-life balance. But for many among the highest achieving social classes, work-life balance is a luxury that cannot be afforded. Each moment of leisure is a moment of lost opportunity, lost productivity, and a lost competitive edge over those who devote their entire lives to their work. In a […]

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Florida is happily next on the Pornhub chopping block

Another win against the pornography industry approaches in the form of a new Florida bill. The law, aiming at online protections for minors, has had the same fortunate result as many others: a statewide self-ban by Pornhub. It has happened in 13 states so far. Louisiana led with an age-verification bill, and then several states […]

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