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Oct 10, 2024 | 
reason.com | Marcus Witcher
Book Reviews Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan is deeply researched and informative, but it sometimes stumbles when it tries to use the past to make sense of the present.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
aol.com | Marcus Witcher
October 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM Liveright Reagan: His Life and Legend, by Max Boot, Liveright, 836 pages, $45 Max Boot believes "the biographer's job is to find the compromises and expose the shibboleths and then to report on them dispassionately, not to cover them up or exaggerate their importance, so that readers can make up their own minds." In Reagan: His Life and Legend, the first comprehensive biography of President Ronald Reagan since Donald Trump entered the White House, the historian and...
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
orlandosentinel.com | Marcus Witcher
Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, perhaps the campaign can focus more on policy and issues that the American people care about. Following the first presidential debate, all the attention was on President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
dcjournal.com | Marcus Witcher
Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, perhaps the campaign can focus more on policy and issues that the American people care about. Following the first presidential debate, all the attention was on President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
bostonherald.com | Marcus Witcher
After the June presidential debate, all anyone could talk about was President Biden’s health. There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about his mental acuity (for both political and governance reasons), but I was frustrated and concerned about something else — neither candidate seemed interested in addressing the problems that Americans face every day. The issues that Biden and former president Donald Trump sidestepped were vast, but one stuck out to me — the price of childcare.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
capitalismmagazine.com | Marcus Witcher
In her new book The Heart of a Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to About African Poverty — and What that Means for Human Flourishing, Magatte Wade argues that government corruption, overregulation, and Africa’s embrace of socialism have caused Africa’s poverty. She is pushing back against the standard narrative that slavery and colonization are the root cause of Africa’s misery.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
aier.org | Marcus Witcher
In her new book The Heart of a Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to About African Poverty — and What that Means for Human Flourishing, Magatte Wadeargues that government corruption, overregulation, and Africa’s embrace of socialism have caused Africa’s poverty. She is pushing back against the standard narrative that slavery and colonization are the root cause of Africa’s misery.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Helen Dale |David Schaefer |Samuel Gregg |Marcus Witcher
We live in a world of mutually assured cancellation. Piled-on abuse and career destruction are now standard when dealing with political or intellectual opponents. I wrote about this on my personal Substack last month. There, I drew on the escalating—and global—war of words and deeds over Israel-Palestine. Finally, conservatives and dissenting liberals had found a way to wound the woke and radical left, and they were proceeding to dish it out in spades.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | David Schaefer |Samuel Gregg |Marcus Witcher |David Goldman
“In July 1997,” writes the distinguished Swiss Jesuit Christian Rutishauer, “I was attending an Ulpan [Hebrew-language immersion course] at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. During a break one day, I walked over to the Hecht Synagogue on the Mount Scopus campus. … By chance, I picked up a copy of Halakhic Man by the Rav [“the Rabbi,” as Soloveitchik is known to religious Jews]. … The name Soloveitchik did not ring a bell.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Oren Cass |David Schaefer |Samuel Gregg |Marcus Witcher
Perhaps because it is used almost always in criticism, the implication of the term “market fundamentalism” has become pejorative. Few people would say, for instance, that thanks to market fundamentalism we now benefit from … well, anything. But insults accomplish little. “Market obsession” or “market addiction,” for instance, might induce guffaws from the right audience, but all they convey is disdain. “Market fundamentalism,” by contrast, is at heart descriptive rather than a normative judgment.
