Social Justice for Conservatives

Review: Arthur Brooks, ‘The Conservative Heart’
Arthur Brooks / AP

Arthur Brooks / AP

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When articles are written about the American Enterprise Institute, space is frequently devoted to cataloguing the eccentricities of its president, Arthur Brooks. Brooks is not a stereotypical, or even typical, conservative. In his 20s, he was a professional French hornist in the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, and politics was far from his mind. He changed tack a few years later, earning an economics degrees by correspondence and entering academia. Now he is president of a Washington institution that is working to recast conservatism in both its practice, and its perception.

Editor's Blog

TSA Faces New Lawsuit Over Body Scanners

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The Transportation Security Administration is facing a new lawsuit for implementing body scanners before weighing in on public opinion or developing regulations for their use. The lawsuit would require the agency to come up with conclusive rules within 90 days, according to a press release.

Heads in the Sand

Column: Obama and Kerry play let’s pretend
Let's pretend
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The last week has provided a sad but worthwhile opportunity to assess the global elite, the heads of state and government, the bankers and journalists and celebrities, as they worked overtime to preserve a veneer of progress and stability. From Athens to Beijing, D.C. to Vienna, the desire has been to avoid tough decisions, to prolong deliberation, to pretend as though dangerous emerging trends do not exist. To take action, to provoke, to choose, to commit, to fight, to admit reality would be far too disruptive, would cost too much, and would endanger the social positions our best and brightest have worked so mightily to attain. Better for them to wait things out.

Escape from Asia’s Holocaust

Review: Hyeonseo Lee’s ‘The Girl With Seven Names’
Lee Hyeon Seo
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More than three decades ago, a professor of mine commented about the futility of learning about the horror of the Josef Stalin years in the Soviet Union by reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. “The numbers are mind-numbing,” he said. “It’s like reading a telephone directory [this was back in an era when we all still had those monstrosities with a yellow cover] because you cannot comprehend the numbers of victims—millions of them. If you want to understand the Stalin years, read One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, because it is a story based on one person and that person’s single day in a Soviet Gulag—this is something that we can all relate to.”

Clintons Facilitated Donor’s Haiti Project That Defrauded U.S. Out of Millions

Hillary Clinton Donor Claudio Osorio’s InnoVida bilked investors out of $40 million
Claudio Osorio and Bill Clinton (screenshot of CNBC program American Greed)
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A Clinton donor used his relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton to help him obtain federal funding for a sham Haiti recovery project that ended up defrauding the U.S. government out of millions, according to court transcripts and internal government documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Clinton donor and Miami businessman Claudio Osorio, who is currently serving 12 years in federal prison on fraud charges, was granted a $10 million loan by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in 2010 for his company InnoVida to build homes in Haiti after the earthquake.

The Greatness of Eva Brann

Review: Eva Brann, ‘Then and Now’
Battle of Salamis
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The day in 2009 that C-SPAN’s Book TV went to Annapolis to interview Eva Brann, the Blue Angels were performing there for the U.S. Naval Academy’s commissioning week. At about the 16:15 mark in the interview, Brann, a former dean of St. John’s College and recipient of the National Humanities Medal, is discussing her long career when the Angels buzz her book-packed little house, shaking the place a bit and briefly halting the conversation.

‘Ant-Man’ Review

Earth’s tiniest hero packs a mighty funny punch
Ant Man
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Ant-Man is the latest offering from the Marvel movie factory, and like its predecessors it is an expert confection of light-hearted, low-calorie fluff: a movie that is funny and amusing and action-packed without anything approaching real sentiment or emotion and that never diverts from the studio’s house style.

Escape from Asia’s Holocaust

Review: Hyeonseo Lee’s ‘The Girl With Seven Names’
Lee Hyeon Seo
BY:  — 

More than three decades ago, a professor of mine commented about the futility of learning about the horror of the Josef Stalin years in the Soviet Union by reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. “The numbers are mind-numbing,” he said. “It’s like reading a telephone directory [this was back in an era when we all still had those monstrosities with a yellow cover] because you cannot comprehend the numbers of victims—millions of them. If you want to understand the Stalin years, read One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, because it is a story based on one person and that person’s single day in a Soviet Gulag—this is something that we can all relate to.”

Clintons Facilitated Donor’s Haiti Project That Defrauded U.S. Out of Millions

Hillary Clinton Donor Claudio Osorio’s InnoVida bilked investors out of $40 million
Claudio Osorio and Bill Clinton (screenshot of CNBC program American Greed)
BY:  — 

A Clinton donor used his relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton to help him obtain federal funding for a sham Haiti recovery project that ended up defrauding the U.S. government out of millions, according to court transcripts and internal government documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Clinton donor and Miami businessman Claudio Osorio, who is currently serving 12 years in federal prison on fraud charges, was granted a $10 million loan by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) in 2010 for his company InnoVida to build homes in Haiti after the earthquake.