A common objection I have heard to the Black Lives Matter movement is, “Well, don’t ALL lives matter?” The thing is, I doubt very many people in the movement would disagree with that. In fact, that is the point of the movement: that all lives, including black lives, matter. A few years ago, a woman […]
Bruce Robinson: The Red Queen and Obama’s legacy
Remember The Red Queen in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”? If you’re a millennial, probably not. Some may think it’s Helena Bonham Carter, the actress who played The Red Queen in Tim Burton’s 2010 film version starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. But, as one anonymous online reviewer of that glitzy production observed, “Poor Lewis […]
Devon Minnema: The differences in breaking the law
I have written before about the rule of law. I’ve talked a lot about how it seems to be crumbling in the face of corruption at the government’s highest levels. I’m sure at some point I even claimed that there were two different sets of rules in the country. I now believe that is wrong. […]
Matt Talbot: Some thoughts on the American auto industry
American luxury sedans dating from before the 1974 oil crisis. That column was, in part, an elegy for a vanished Golden Age of American manufacturing. In that column, I wrote: “It is hard to convey, at this remove, how completely American car companies used to dominate the American market. As recently as the mid-70s General […]