Week in Review: Silicon Valley Billionaires Are the New Robber Barons

Progressives used to pressure U.S. corporations to cut back on outsourcing and on the tactic of building their products abroad to take advantage of inexpensive foreign workers. During the 2012 election, President Obama attacked Mitt Romney as a potential illiberal "outsourcer-in-chief" for investing in companies that...

August 20 2017

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Silicon Valley Billionaires Are the New Robber Barons Victor Davis Hanson Progressives used to pressure U.S. corporations to cut back on outsourcing and on the tactic of building their products abroad to take advantage of inexpensive foreign workers. During the 2012 election, President Obama attacked Mitt Romney as a potential illiberal "outsourcer-in-chief" for investing in companies that... READ MORE Three and a Half More Years! Kevin D. Williamson The campaign to make Donald Trump president of these United States was a terrible idea. The campaign to drive him from office is a worse one. House Democrats Brad Sherman of California and Al... On Charlottesville, Trump, and Anti-Americanism Andrew C. McCarthy Susan Rosenberg was a terrorist in the early 1980s. Like her Weathermen comrades, she would have killed many people had she been a more competent terrorist. She was a fugitive plotting more... ADVERTISEMENT Yes, Let's Rethink Free Speech Charles C. W. Cooke In the New York Times, UCLA's K-Sue Park proposes that "the A.C.L.U. Needs to Rethink Free Speech": After the A.C.L.U. was excoriated for its stance, it responded that "preventing the... Destroying Symbols: Where Does It End? Kyle Smith The orgiastic glee with which protesters tore down, then beat up, a century-old monument to a generic Confederate soldier in Durham, N.C., this week was alarming. The mob seemed to have lost... End the Violence Jim Talent Andy McCarthy has written an estimable column outlining the legal aspects of federal "domestic terrorism" laws. One of Andy's points is that acts of violence in the context of protests are... Elizabeth Warren Sells Out Elliot Kaufman Senator Elizabeth Warren once appeared on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, TBS's unwatchable Daily Show spinoff. This pairing had potential — for the first time, Bee had a chance to appear funny... ADVERTISEMENT God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades Rodney Stark 'God's Battalions launches a frontal assault on the comfortable myths that scholars have popularized about the crusades. The results are startling. His greatest achievement is to make us see the crusaders on their own terms.' - Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity LEARN MORE Drones at Work Photos of the Week ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.