Robert P George resigns from the Heritage Foundation

I only vaguely know about this controversy, but I do know Robert George (not personally) as a very principled Catholic intellectual with quite a resume. So whatever he does, I support. This is a black eye for the Heritage Foundation. From the Wall Street Journal – The Heritage Foundation debacle isn’t over. The decision of … Read more

WSJ: Ultrarich, privacy and income inequality

This is from the Journal – Let them eat cake? “The Ultrarich are spending a fortune to live in extreme privacy. In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life. When developers Masoud and Stephanie Shojaee dined out recently, they headed … Read more

WSJ: “Bias Meltdown at the BBC”

No surprise. They used to be even worse. “It’s a warning to Western democracies not to let the government control news production.” Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, had little choice other than to quit, and neither did the head of the BBC’s news division, Deborah Turness. In a memo leaked last week to the Telegraph … Read more