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The Biden administration cancelation of student loans in the aggregate amount of hundreds of billions of dollars is bad public policy in several dimensions. It lacks any respectable justification. The Department of Education has posted a press release describing the scheme here. Axios provides a brief outline of the details here. The scheme is of dubious legality, although they the a theory. It is cynical beyond belief. Take a hint

Listeners to the 3WHH podcast will know that Lucretia and I have long divided on the question of Edmund Burke. To paraphrase something William F. Buckley once said about Harry Jaffa, if you think it is difficult to argue with Lucretia, just try agreeing with her—its nearly impossible. Back in our grad school days we liked to make fun of the leftist pop psychology popular at the time that everything

Diana Schaub's 'His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation,' provides valuable insight on how Lincoln's words echo today.

Historian Richard Samuelson turned up for Friday evening happy hour this week, with 14-year-old Oban in hand, to kick around this week’s less-than-neat headlines. Is it merely a coincidence that Jen Psaki chose April Fools’ Day to have the news come out that she’s going to join MSNBC? Irony is truly dead. Meanwhile, on the great existential question of the week—”Team Smith” or “Team Rock”—Lucretia disdains either choice, while affirming the

I decided to post up this weeks edition a day early also since some of the news items in it are perishable. This week we’re joined once again by the historian, political theorist, and borscht-belt comedian Richard Samuelson to break the 3WHH deadlock on “the FDR Question.” But fear not weary listeners, we dispose of that question in short order, and move on to other things. (“Team Lucretia” will be pleased

Everyone knows Tolstoy’s famous opening of Anna Karenna: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This certainly applies to the Power Line family right now. Now, I am an old-fashioned WASP that doesn’t like to talk about family matters in public, but having precipitated this crisis, I think I owe some answers to readers who have been writing directly to me and commenting

Since our VIP session for today has been postponed, Lucretia and I decided to reschedule and change up our Daily Whisky Shot taping for tomorrows episode, and change to a live taping on Zoom this evening at 5 pm Pacific/8 pm eastern, open to all Power Line readers since it is for the general audience podcast. The link is below. We had planned to end the week with a short

For what turns out to be the 300th Power Line podcast as well as the last episode of 2021, we decided to revert to full three-whisky mode with a live audience on Zoom, and an extended conversation with historian Richard Samuelson about the left’s distorted and impoverished understanding of democracy. I quaffed my usual Islay peat bombs (while offering some new reviews of luxury whiskys) and Lucretia polished off a

The World Health Organization was accused of pandering to China after announcing Friday that the latest COVID-19 variant has been named "omicron" after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, skipping the letters "nu" and "xi." In a statement to The Washington Times, WHO said that the 13th and 14th Greek letters were passed over because "nu" looks too much like "new," and "xi" would violate the organization's policy against offending...

The World Health Organization was accused of pandering to China after announcing Friday that the latest COVID-19 variant has been named "omicron" after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, skipping the letters "nu" and "xi." In a statement to The Washington Times, WHO said that the 13th and 14th Greek letters were passed over because "nu" looks too much like "new," and "xi" would violate the organization's policy against offending...