Pete Spiliakos

Conn Carroll has some kind things to say about Mike Lee and I agree that Lee’s approach to policy is vastly better than that of the Republican establishment as seen in the Republican National Committee’s autopsy (basically counseling ”comprehensive immigration . . . . Continue Reading »

Will it be single-payer?  If conservatives don’t offer a viable alternative using incremental changes, single-payer is what we will (eventually) get.  Yuval Levin and Ramesh Ponnuru point conservatives in the direction of the reforms we need.    And from now a word . . . . Continue Reading »

Nancy Pelosi was just as bad as you’ve heard on Meet The Press . There was her determined denial of the obvious (that Obamacare had led to the cancellation of insurance policies for millions). There was her declaration of utter ruthlessness in pursuit of the passage of Obamacare (“If we . . . . Continue Reading »

Poking around on the internet, I see a lot of articles whose headlines are some variation of: President Proposes “Administrative Fix” To His Health Care Law But reading Megan McArdle, I wonder if the articles would give a better sense of the situation if they were written as: President . . . . Continue Reading »

Today’s On The Square column is about how a limited government politics should do more to take our relational natures into account. . . . . Continue Reading »

America’s high-earners are more likely to be married. Its low-earners are not: There is a reason why the Julia in President Obama’s “Life of Julia” slideshow got what she needed from President Obama’s policies at every point in her life (and never needed anyone else for anything else). As Peter Lawler has pointed out, the combination of weak social networks and the responsibility of raising children tends to incline voters toward statist policies. . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare’s problems have taken a toll on the president’s job approval numbers. What is worse is that President Obama’s poll numbers are sinking even though the stock market is hitting new highs and the job market is slowly healing. Even the economy stays on the same path (or a . . . . Continue Reading »

  Kevin Noble Maillard is trying to read into the significance of New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio being part of an interracial marriage: Enter the domestic hipsterdom of racially mixed family, a multivalent Rorschach for political campaigns. It appeals to multiple demographic groups. . . . . Continue Reading »

Ramesh Ponnuru argues that Chris Christie’s impending win shows that a social conservative can win in purple (or even blue) territory. Samuel Goldman argues that the price for these social conservatives being elected is that they must not actually do much to advance their policies. I’m . . . . Continue Reading »

David Weigel has a good (both civil and probing) interview with Nebraska Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse.   I’m not sure I agree with Weigel’s framing of Sasse as a Ted-Cruz-type.  Reading the Weigel interview and other stories about Sasse, my sense is that Sasse . . . . Continue Reading »