Meanwhile, over at The Week, I’ve been offering Hillary Clinton some free campaign advice in a series of columns.
In the first column, which you can read here, I focus on the need for Clinton to redefine herself yet again:
As I fully expected them to, most of the institutional GOP has fallen into line behind their standard-bearer, whatever their private reservations. A handful of intellectuals – mostly neoconservatives who have long had ties to both parties – have openly defected to Clinton, which makes perfect sense since her foreign policy views are largely congenial to them, and foreign policy is what they care about most of all. But most of those who previously expressed disdain or alarm about Trump are being cajoled or bullied into supporting the nominee.
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Destroying our ability to discover the real cost of assets, credit and risk has not just crippled the markets--it's crippled the entire economy.
Is anyone else fed up with the Federal Reserve? To paraphrase Irving Fisher's famous quote about the stock market just before it crashed in 1929, we've reached a permanently high plateau of Fed mismanagement, Fed worship and Fed failure.
I’m reviewing reform conservative thinker Yuval Levin’s new book The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism, so I don’t want to say too much about it on the blog just yet. It’s a terrific book and an important book, and it offers a new way to think about American politics, beyond the stale left-right ideologies.
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“The vitality of civil and political institutions in our society depends on free discussion… It is only through free debate and free exchange of ideas that government remains responsive to the will of the people and peaceful change is effected. The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is therefore one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from totalitarian regimes.”—Justice William O. Douglas, Terminiello v. City of Chicago (1949)