This is not how leaders of a free society behave. At 7:29 Eastern time this morning, the @NatConTalk account on the website formerly known as Twitter reported that police in Brussels, Belgium, had arrived at the site of the second Brussels-based National Conservatism Conference “with an order to shut NatCon down for creating a public disturbance.” […]
Shortly after Nippon Steel announced plans to purchase U.S. Steel, Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) vowed to “do everything in my power” to prevent the two private companies from finishing the deal. Even against that backdrop, Vance’s latest gambit is a shocking and shameless attempt at using federal power to steer U.S. Steel’s shareholders away from […]
In an op-ed published this week by The Washington Post, Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) makes the case for why conservatives ought to support top-down industrial policy set by the federal government—and, inadvertently, also provides a concise illustration of just how incoherent and illogical that idea actually is. The article’s headline—which was likely applied by the Post‘s editors […]