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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—it's 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 week's 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