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Robert Tracinski

Robert Tracinski writes daily commentary at TIADaily.com. He is the editor of The Intellectual Activist and TIADaily.com.
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Recent Articles

  • The Lawless State Comes to America - May 13, 2009
    • The breadth of President Obama's assault on capitalism is breathtaking: from seeking to regulate fine details like credit card fees, to exerting control over major...
  • The Choice Between Capitalism and Socialism - April 27, 2009
    • A few days ago, I happened to meet a doctor in our area who has an unusual background. He emigrated to America from Russia, and I heard from one of the nurses in his...
  • Women's Rights as a Measure of Civilization - April 9, 2009
    • As for the right, I detect in their recent interest in women's rights a quest for a kind of payback against the left. Having been vilified for decades as a bunch of a...
  • The Anti-Industrial Coup - March 26, 2009
    • This is also an assault on the entire structure of representative government. Controls on emissions of carbon dioxide will reach into every nook and cranny of the...
  • The "Can-Do" Economy-Killer - February 25, 2009
    • For example, he would boast of "bold and persistent experimentation" in a way that would make the general public think of him as a vigorous, enterprising man with a...
  • No Idea What He's Doing - January 23, 2009
    • I had expected Obama to crib from Lincoln or Roosevelt. Instead he cribbed from Dorothy Fields: "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin...
  • How a Creeping Government Takeover is Destroying the Banks - January 20, 2009
    • But the obvious question is: why are private investors scarce? Maybe it has something to do with the terms of the "stimulus" aimed at them. The Times story contains only...
  • The Federal Department of Economic Recovery - January 10, 2009
    • The danger of Barack Obama's presidency is not that he will act openly on the old dogmas of the left. Indeed, during his transition he has largely attempted to meld into...
  • The Fraud of Government Intervention - December 31, 2008
    • Can anyone really be saying this in the 21st century? If so, it is because they have failed 20th-Century History 101. For those in need of a quick refresher, the...
  • The Return of the Old Left - December 11, 2008
    • By the end of the 20th century, the failure of all of these policies had caused the Old Left to splinter into two groups. The New Left hippies rejected industrial...
  • Bailouts Will Give Us Detroitsky - RealClearMarkets - November 18, 2008
  • Auto Bailouts Will Give Us Detroitsky - November 18, 2008
    • Obama is backing a plan to pump $50 billion into the big American automakers, while also establishing "a czar or board to oversee the companies"--call it Gosplan--which...
  • Kill the Bailout - October 2, 2008
    • The Senate is supposed to serve, in James Madison's analogy, as the "cooling saucer" for the hot tea served up by the House--but in this case, it is the House that has...
  • Palin's Pluck and Pragmatism - September 22, 2008
    • This fact does reveal a profoundly faith-driven outlook, because it illuminates Palin's implicit attitude toward reason and the intellect. The joy of having a child is...
  • The Problem with the Media's Palin Coverage - September 17, 2008
    • So if Sarah Palin is potentially the future of the Republican Party, it is vitally important to ask: who is Sarah Palin? What does she stand for? In what direction will...
  • Obama Offers a Beautifully Packaged Lie - August 29, 2008
    • Here's an example that is small but revealing. Obama led with the best sales pitch he has to offer: that he is not George Bush. But of course, Obama is running against...
  • What to Do About Pakistan - August 23, 2008
    • The more subtle goad has been observing the reaction of many Western commentators to Russia's invasion of Georgia. What has struck me is the ease and complacency with...
  • Obama Wraps Up the Bush Status Quo in Pompous Clichés - July 20, 2008
    • The speech has two purposes. One is to artfully evade Obama's massive misjudgment of the "surge," which he unequivocally opposed. Thus, while he half-acknowledges the...
  • How to Kill Cap-and-Trade - RealClearPolitics - June 28, 2008
  • The Odd Years War - The Intellectual Activist - June 19, 2008
  • Obama's Chickens Come Home to Roost - TIA Daily - April 30, 2008
  • What Obama's Speech Really Meant - RealClearPolitics - March 19, 2008
  • Eliot Spitzer's "Emperor's Club" - RealClearPolitics - March 14, 2008