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Julie Ponzi is senior editor of American Greatness.

January 18, 2018|

Making Politics Possible Again

In response to: The Price of Trump: Year One Reflections on an Unconventional Presidency

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 20: U.S. President Donald Trump celebrates Congress passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Those who fear that the good ideas Trump champions will be tainted by his unsavory character are not thinking politically.

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He’s Good and Bad on Foreign Affairs, Good and Bad on the Economy

by David R. Henderson

Trump’s biggest triumphs for liberty are in the area of regulation and taxes.

Trump, the Great De-Mythologizer

by Daniel McCarthy

If there were a Cult of Trump, his supporters wouldn't criticize him. They do—oftener and in more serious ways than George W. Bush's fans criticized him.

Greg Weiner Responds to His Critics

by Greg Weiner

Nothing about Trump's lying or vulgarity has contributed to his policy successes.

November 18, 2015|Liberal Arts, Marco Rubio, Political Correctness, Socrates

Killing Socrates

by Julie Ponzi, Robinson O'Brien-Bours|

Victorian engraving of the death of Socrates.

Marco Rubio demonstrated keen political instincts during one of the primary debates when he used his opening remarks to argue for an end to the stigmatization of vocational training, handily linking the stigmatization to the minimum wage and America’s flagging economy.

September 2, 2015|Administrative State, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, political parties

Sooner or Later, A Sovereign People Asserts Its Authority

by Julie Ponzi|

Though American politics at the grassroots is polarized and divided, sharp commentators have written thoughtfully about the similarities between the parties as a practical matter. I would add that the similarities extend to their leaders.

While George W. Bush and Barack Obama could not be further apart ideologically, their attitudes toward governing suffer from the same flaw. Bush said he was “the Decider,” to which Obama rejoined: “I won.” Both ran roughshod over public opinion.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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