Plus: 4 Things to Know About Biden’s New Voting Czar
April 23 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where the left is working overtime to remake the nation’s institutions. It’s doubtful we’ll want to live with the results, Victor Davis Hanson writes. For an adviser on elections, President Biden turns to a former lawyer for the Democratic National Committee. Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, our Virginia Allen talks about Democrats’ plans to pack the Supreme Court with Heritage Foundation legal expert GianCarlo Canaparo. Plus: the greening of warfare; mandating unionization; and Larry Elder’s thoughts on the Chauvin trial. Sixty years ago tonight, singer-actress Judy Garland, 38, plays Carnegie Hall for a 27-song concert hailed as “the greatest night in showbiz history,” resulting in a No. 1 album.
Adam Smith said of successful nations that they have a lot of “ruin” in them. He meant that a dissolute, leisured, and ahistorical generation has to waste a lot of its inherited wealth before it runs out.
As Democrats push to expand the federal government’s purview over elections, President Biden has named a former Justice Department official to be a White House adviser on voting issues.
Projects to reduce emissions from the Department of Defense would not resolve the strategic challenges of climate change, but they would become sinkholes for crucial defense funding.
