Author Archives: Steven Hayward

The Daily Chart: Immigration and Crime in Europe

Featured image From MSN: Report Shows Higher Conviction Rates for Muslim Immigrants in Denmark Compared to Natives Recent revelations based on data from Statistics Denmark shed light on a concerning trend: immigrants and their descendants in Denmark were convicted of violent crimes at a significantly higher rate than individuals of Danish origin between 2010 and 2021. The statistics paint a stark picture, particularly for young men from predominantly Muslim nations in the »

Loose Ends (248)

Featured image • I have a vivid recollection of watching the first debate in the 2000 fall election between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush, when Gore made a claim about having visited Texas with the director of FEMA after a major wildfire. I noticed Gov. Bush suddenly had a puzzled look in his face, and I filed a mental note: “Gore just told a fabrication of some kind.” Sure »

McDaniel vs. NBC News

Featured image When I heard NBC News was hiring recently dismissed RNC chair Ronna McDaniel my first thought was, but of course they are! She was a mediocre RNC chair with little rhetorical flair or depth, and NBC News was hiring her because she’d help the cause of making Republicans look bad. (See: Michael Steele, the other former RNC chair that MSNBC hired and who now spouts reliably anti-conservative views on command.) »

The Daily Chart: The U.S. Nuclear Deficit

Featured image I once asked a French acquaintance how it was that France managed to build over 5o nuclear power plants over the same time period that the U.S. built virtually none, and his answer was basically that France didn’t pay any attention to Jane Fonda.  Actually his explanation was more colorful (and accurate). Read this with a French accent in your mind: “Ah, but it is simple you see: In France, »

Sen. Kennedy for the Win (As Usual)

Featured image I came to the conclusion a while ago now that Louisiana Senator John Kennedy may be the greatest Senator since Daniel Webster in terms of oratory and general rhetorical skill. And if I have time I will try to put together a highlight reel of his ritual humiliations of liberal witnesses and nominees in Senate committee hearings. He shreds leftists for breakfast, with no rancor or snark, because he is »

The Daily Chart: Vote Rich, Cash Poor?

Featured image At the moment polls look good for Republicans across the board for the November election. But there is one aspect of this year’s cycle where things aren’t looking as good—campaign cash. From Bruce Mehlman’s useful weekly Substack update: »

Our Ugly Ruling Class

Featured image Few things so clearly reveal the innermost ugliness and presumptuousness of our ruling class clustered in and around Washington DC (where eight of the ten highest-income counties in the nation now cluster) than the recent Wall Street Journal news account of a “scandal” in DC-area little league baseball. It seems politically powerful people, especially elite lawyers, rigged the local little league process for creating a level playing field among teams »

Smartest Thing a Liberal Said Last Week

Featured image The Biden Administration’s diplomacy with Israel over its war against Hamas has reached the Animal House “double-secret probation” stage, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken warning Israel that it may find itself diplomatically “isolated” in the world if it attacks Rafah. Is it possible for Israel to be any more “isolated” than it already is in the joke that is called “the diplomatic community”? Dean Wormer could hardly have done »

Dumbest Thing A Liberal Said Last Week

Featured image Robert “Beto” O’Rourke—remember him?—appeared on Bill Maher’s comedy show Friday night, and accused Big Retail—”the Walmarts, the Amazons, the Krogers of the world” of price gouging. But it is O’Rourke’s explanation that earns him an entire feature display in the Museum of Leftist Stupidity: “They were jacking prices in the middle of inflation and blaming it on the economy.” Imagine! Raising prices during inflation! Who ever heard of such a »

Podcast: The 3WHH—With a Twist!

Featured image This week’s episode could be mistaken for the Three Martini Happy Hour, because this week’s installment comes with a tangy twist. John Yoo is away this week, so we brought in a ringer to take his place: Prof. Hadley Arkes! Thus this episode become a Positivism-Free Zone, in which we review the deepest ground of the natural law unencumbered by John’s usual alarums, excursions, and errors. The episode comes in »

The Week in Pictures: Bloodbath Edition

Featured image Has there ever been a greater example of media malpractice and malevolence than the way Trump’s mention of a “bloodbath” for the auto industry under Biden (analysis: completely true!) was turned into some kind of MAGA Kristallnacht? I suspect Joe Biden’s new clown shoes are an ironic tribute to this in-kind campaign contribution. Headlines of the week: And finally. . . »

The Daily Chart: Offshore and Out of Mind

Featured image We always hear a lot about the expense and difficulty of decommissioning nuclear power plants, but we seldom hear about the cost and difficulty of decommissioning wind mills, which only last half as long (if that much) as nuclear plants. Especially offshore wind, which is much more expensive to begin with.  Here’s one estimate of the future problem: JOHN adds: Offshore wind is possibly the stupidest way to generate electricity »

The Daily Chart: What Real ‘Resistance’ Looks Like

Featured image The left loves to talk about being “The Resistance.” But the real “resistance” to our domineering leftist cultural and educational institutions can be seen vividly in this chart: And it seems more parents are not placing their children in pre-school, which is where wokism gets a head start (partly through Head Start, a federal program that repeated studies find is ineffective): Chaser—no wonder Democrats are in a panic right now »

Biden’s True Misery Index

Featured image Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman keeps demanding to know why the plebs of America don’t appreciate just how awesome the economy is under Joe Biden’s brilliant economic management. In his latest column, “Why Are Americans Still Down on the Economy?,” the Krugster says: It’s true that most Americans have a negative view of the economy. But people don’t directly experience the economy. What they directly experience are their own financial »

The Left’s Worst Idea This Week

Featured image As you may know, the mainstream media is going through massive layoffs, to which a paraphrase of the great Oscar Wilde line comes to mind—one has to have a heart of stone not to laugh at massive media layoffs, given the increasing partisan mendacity and advancing mediocrity of the mainstream media. So guess what is proposed to reverse this dire situation? Behold The Jacobin (which is certainly an appropriate name »

The Daily Chart: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

Featured image We’ve posted up several times before various measures of the ideological gender gap, all showing women are more liberal than men at just about every age cohort, but especially younger demographics. Another reason to repeal the 19th Amendment if you ask me. Anyway, here’s the latest trans-national comparison of younger people from The Economist. And once again the gender gap is worst in the U.S. (Sigh. At least Australian women »

The Daily Chart: Hollywood Inequality Persists

Featured image As anyone who suffers the Academy Awards nonsense knows, the new mandate in Tinseltown is “diversity.” There have to be “people of color” in every nomination category now. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice that women keep getting the short end of things when it comes to scripts of Best Picture winners.  (I haven’t seen data for the last eight years, but I doubt there’s been much change.) »