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February 24, 2025 by

America, for So Long a State of Mind, Is Losing Its Sense of Mission

America isn’t just a piece of remarkably fertile real estate between two great oceans. It is also a state of mind. Even when America has done wrong things (think racism) or stupid things (think Prohibition), it has still shone brightly to the world as the citadel of free expression, abundant opportunity, and a place where […]

Will U.S. Barons ‘Magna Carta’ Trump?

Llewellyn King

Sitting behind President Trump at his inauguration were men who might well be called the barons of America: the big-tech billionaires who control vast wealth and public awe. They are so high in Trump’s esteem that he seated them in front of his Cabinet. When King John of England was crowned in 1199, barons also attended […]

The Trump Way Comes to The Washington Post

Llewellyn King

As Juliet might have said, “O America, America, wherefore art thou America?” What has become of us when the president, Donald Trump, who opposes big government, wants the government to have its hand in everything, from the operation of The Kennedy Center to the regulatory commissions, to gender identification, to traffic control in New York […]

A Chainsaw Is the Woefully Wrong Tool for Government Reform

Llewellyn King

At the recent “Future of the Blue Economy” conference in Newport, Rhode Island, entrepreneurs and their investors were talking about breakthroughs, but the term they used — replacing “Sputnik moment” — was “SpaceX moment.” That was a salute to the extraordinary precision engineering that enables the booster stage of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket to reposition […]