Negative Space: Weekly Standard
- Conservative policies go to pot
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Prohibition is the conservative Obamacare: it doesn’t matter how bad the law is, or how many times people must be unilaterally exempted from it: we need it for aspirational purposes. Conservative prohibitionists can talk a good game about state-level experiments when it comes to education, and recognize the importance of the rule of law when it comes to health insurance. But when it comes to marijuana the only solution is arbitrary federal control of whoever doesn’t kowtow sufficiently to government officials.
- Fixing unemployment insurance benefits
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True unemployment insurance is ensuring that the motivated unemployed can create their own jobs.
- Global weirding and the compromise class
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Conservatism does not grant government more power: compromise between conservatism and the left does. But compromise between the truth and a lie is always a lie, in the case of global catastrophes, catastrophic as well.
- Just a jump to the Left
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The cry of the beltway is that conservatives should always jump to the left in the dance of government. No matter how often they’re proved wrong. It’s like they’re in a time warp, always repeating the same failed policies.
- My job fell in the (oil) well
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Through steel tariffs, we killed tens of thousands of jobs in industries that use steel by raising the cost of steel in the United States. Now Irwin M. Stelzer wants to do the same to industries that use oil. That is, all of them. Everyone uses energy.
- The plexiglass highway
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Government bureaucracies can cause anything to fail, even progress.
- The price of politics
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Are the corruptions of powerful government a symptom of the system, or a symptom of the imperfection of man?
- Republican President must keep Roosevelt’s word
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Even if a future conservative president doesn’t believe Americans of Japanese descent are disloyal, says Irwin Stelzer, he should think twice before rescinding President Roosevelt’s Executive Orders. The President’s honor—and the nation’s—is more important than politics.
- Sentences they shouldn’t have finished… that way…
- The Weekly Standard has a semi-regular feature called “sentences we didn’t finish”. This is a sentence I read in the Weekly Standard that they really should have thought about before finishing.
- Stop the rot—with sunlight and sunset
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If reform conservatism needs an anticorruption agenda, what structural changes should be on that agenda?
