<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 
<rss version="2.0"> 
 <channel> 
<title><![CDATA[Robert Tracinski - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14578.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Tracinski]]></description><category domain="14578">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Progressives Won't Be Happy Until You Hate Your Kids]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/12/progressives-wont-happy-hate-kids/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/12/progressives-wont-happy-hate-kids/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You're probably perpetuating racism. How? Because you love our kids and want them to do well in life. Which is just the worst, right?]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA['This Is America' Is the Epitome of Preachy PC Art]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/11/america-epitome-preachy-pc-art/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/11/america-epitome-preachy-pc-art/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Glover's 'This Is America' is typical of the art championed by our cultural elites: little artistic content, but loud, didactic political messaging.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Dear Annoying Parkland Kids: No, You're Not Experts]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/06/dear-parkland-kids-we-gave-you-an-awesome-world-dont-mess-it-up/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/06/dear-parkland-kids-we-gave-you-an-awesome-world-dont-mess-it-up/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's look at Parkland kids' arrogant presumption that previous generations messed up the world, so that they have to 'rebuild' it.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Signs Liberalism's Slow Suicide Is Finally Complete]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/11/signs-liberalisms-slow-suicide-finally-complete/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/11/signs-liberalisms-slow-suicide-finally-complete/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Campus protests against the ACLU are a sign that American 'liberalism' is being destroyed by the forces it unleashed and its own inherent contradictions.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[We're Letting Politics Descend Into Illiberal Caricatures]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/13/notes-charlottesville-state-emergency/#.WZBpvNhMi-U.twitter</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/13/notes-charlottesville-state-emergency/#.WZBpvNhMi-U.twitter]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Rep. Mo Brooks Explains Why We Need Gun Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/16/witnessing-shooting-rep-mo-brooks-explains-need-gun-rights/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/16/witnessing-shooting-rep-mo-brooks-explains-need-gun-rights/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The congressional baseball game shooter was clearly motivated by political hatred of Republicans. This hatred was clearly fed and magnified by listening to hysterical partisan rhetoric and participating in online discussions that reinforced his political biases, painted caricatures of...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Global Warming Doomsday Cult]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/02/paris-climate-withdrawal-re-triggers-global-warming-doomsday-cult/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/02/paris-climate-withdrawal-re-triggers-global-warming-doomsday-cult/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So what are the consequences of Donald Trump pulling America out of the Paris Agreement on global warming? Bad news: the planet is going to die.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[At NYT, More Global Warming Science Without Numbers]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/30/nyt-peddles-global-warming-science-without-numbers/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/30/nyt-peddles-global-warming-science-without-numbers/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recently, I noted the basic pattern of science reporting on global warming, particularly as practiced by The New York Times: feeding you an overall conclusion, illustrated with pretty pictures designed to make you feel like you&rsquo;ve been given information&mdash;but withholding from...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[For the Left, Socialism Denial Is Holocaust Denial]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/24/left-socialism-denial-holocaust-denial/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/24/left-socialism-denial-holocaust-denial/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cracknell posted a half-hearted apology, and I don&rsquo;t want to be too hard on him, because in all likelihood he is simply not very bright and just needs to refrain from speaking in public ever again. This is unfortunate for him, since he has ambitions of running for Parliament.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Scott Pruitt Is Absolutely Right About Carbon Dioxide]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/03/13/scott-pruitt-is-absolutely-right-about-carbon-dioxide/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/03/13/scott-pruitt-is-absolutely-right-about-carbon-dioxide/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For pro-free-marketers, the big bright spot of the Trump administration is the hatchet he&rsquo;s taking to the Environmental Protection Agency: doing things like packing the agency with global warming skeptics and rolling back absurd new automobile mileage mandates. The man in charge of...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[NYT: You're Too Dumb to Understand Global Warming]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/27/new-york-times-our-readers-are-too-dumb-to-understand-numbers/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/27/new-york-times-our-readers-are-too-dumb-to-understand-numbers/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about the wretched reporting on the claim that 2016 was the &ldquo;hottest year on record,&rdquo; using as my main example a New York Times article by Justin Gillis that gave his readers none of the relevant numbers they could use to evaluate that claim. None of them. If...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why NYT Hid the Numbers for &quot;Hottest Year on Record&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/18/nyt-hid-numbers-hottest-year-record/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/18/nyt-hid-numbers-hottest-year-record/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They say that mathematics is the language of science, which is a way of saying that science is quantitative. It is moved forward by numbers and measurements, not just by qualitative observations. &ldquo;It seems hot out&rdquo; is not science. Giving a specific temperature, measured by a...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Inauguration Protesters Work Hard for Trump Re-Election]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/18/trump-inauguration-protesters-work-hard-re-election/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/18/trump-inauguration-protesters-work-hard-re-election/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m not boasting or gloating about this outcome. I didn&rsquo;t want there to be a first Trump inauguration, and I probably won&rsquo;t be too happy about a second one, either. Yes, a lot can and will go wrong with the Trump administration over the next four years, so it&rsquo;s...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Fake News&quot; Is a Legacy Media Shakedown]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/19/fake-news-legacy-media-shaking-facebook/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/19/fake-news-legacy-media-shaking-facebook/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 'fake news' hysteria is an attempt to intimidate Facebook into setting up the 'legacy media' as gatekeepers and toll collectors for the digital media.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Anthony Weiner &amp; the Clintonization of Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/30/anthony-weiner-and-the-clintonization-of-politics/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/30/anthony-weiner-and-the-clintonization-of-politics/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest Anthony Weiner scandal is a preview of the Clintons' personalization of politics.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Continues to Spiral Downwards]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/15/obama-obamacare-didnt-work-so-lets-completely-socialize-medicine/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/15/obama-obamacare-didnt-work-so-lets-completely-socialize-medicine/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama implicitly acknowledges ObamaCare has failed&#195;&#162;??and lays the cards on the table for what we knew was going to be his next step.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Imagine No Possessions, Imagine Venezuela]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/20/imagine-no-possessions-imagine-venezuela/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/20/imagine-no-possessions-imagine-venezuela/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is considered an innocuous statement of youthful idealism, suitable for all audiences. I last heard it a few days ago, sung by a group of wholesome middle-school girls at my kids&rsquo; school. The song is encouraged by adults as a way of showing off your earnest idealism and your...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Facebook Became the Old Media, Only Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/16/how-facebook-became-the-old-media-only-worse/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/16/how-facebook-became-the-old-media-only-worse/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A report on the inner workings of Facebook&rsquo;s &ldquo;Trending Topics&rdquo; headlines exposes how Facebook contractors routinely manipulated the news feed to exclude topics and news sources of interest to people on the right. Here&rsquo;s how a whistleblower put it: I&rsquo;d come...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[At Emory, Campus Totalitarianism Has Arrived]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/28/at-emory-campus-totalitarianism-has-arrived/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/28/at-emory-campus-totalitarianism-has-arrived/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Universities, once supposedly the great centers of American &ldquo;liberalism,&rdquo; have spent decades working their way toward becoming totalitarian monocultures in which only one approved set of political opinions is tolerated. And now they have arrived at their goal. Last week at...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[#FreeStacy: The Old Regime &amp; the Twitter Revolution]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/22/freestacy-the-old-regime-and-the-twitter-revolution/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/22/freestacy-the-old-regime-and-the-twitter-revolution/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Twitter suspended the account of Robert Stacy McCain, a conservative blogger and dogged critic of feminism, apparently without warning or explanation. This has led, in true Twitter fashion, to protests under the hashtag #FreeStacy.Only a few weeks earlier, Twitter had...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Viable Paths to the Nomination for Trump, Cruz, &amp; Rubio]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/22/paths-to-the-nomination-trump-cruz-and-rubio/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/22/paths-to-the-nomination-trump-cruz-and-rubio/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're far enough along in the Republican primary process that we can begin to project how the top three might be able to win the nomination.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Year the PC Chickens Came Home to Roost]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/04/politically-correct-chickens-home-to-roost/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/04/politically-correct-chickens-home-to-roost/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In last year&rsquo;s roundup of the top stories of the year, I argued that 2014 was the year we were all drafted into the culture wars. &ldquo;This is the year when we were served noticed that we won&rsquo;t be allowed to stand on the sidelines, because we will not be allowed to think...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Phantom Menace (of Global Warming)]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/21/top-2015-story-no-5-the-phantom-menace-of-global-warming/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/21/top-2015-story-no-5-the-phantom-menace-of-global-warming/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s time to count down the top stories of the year, looking back at the big events of 2015 and reviewing my own coverage of them. We&rsquo;ll start the countdown with #5, which is the least important of the big stories because it&rsquo;s not about something that&rsquo;s actually...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Alarmists Con Themselves]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/14/paris-climate-change-alarmists-con-themselves/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/14/paris-climate-change-alarmists-con-themselves/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After last month&rsquo;s massive terrorist attack brought the disastrous civil war in Syria and the renewed threat of radical Islam back to the forefront of everyone&rsquo;s minds, world leaders met in Paris to forge an ambitious agreement &mdash; about global warming. You didn&rsquo;t...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bill Nye the Propaganda Guy]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/03/bill-nye-the-propaganda-guy/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/03/bill-nye-the-propaganda-guy/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You have no doubt come across the type of people who proclaim that they loooooove science. Why, they don&rsquo;t just love science, they freaking love science. For the most part, they demonstrate this love not by actually making scientific discoveries or using science in their work, but...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Barack Obama: Worst. President. Ever.]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/19/barack-obama-worst-president-ever/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/19/barack-obama-worst-president-ever/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I still remember a lot of people telling me in 2006 that George W. Bush was the &ldquo;worst president ever.&rdquo; They had no idea what they were talking about. This is what the &ldquo;worst president ever&rdquo; looks like. In his response to the attacks in Paris, Barack Obama has...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Climate Change Inquisition Begins]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/09/the-climate-change-inquisition-begins/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/09/the-climate-change-inquisition-begins/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York&rsquo;s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, has started an investigation of Exxon Mobil &ldquo;to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business.&rdquo; According toThe New York...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bad News for Dems: Clinton Is Finally Inevitable]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/23/hillary-clinton-is-finally-inevitable-and-thats-bad-news-for-democrats/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/23/hillary-clinton-is-finally-inevitable-and-thats-bad-news-for-democrats/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton has achieved her dream. She is finally inevitable. That&rsquo;s the upshot of Joe Biden&rsquo;s decision not to run for the Democratic nomination. He was the only candidate of stature who could still oppose her, especially given the prospect that he might have done so...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[6 Things We Learned About the Democrats Last Week]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/19/6-things-we-learned-about-the-democrats-last-week/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/19/6-things-we-learned-about-the-democrats-last-week/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;ve had a few days from last week&rsquo;s Democratic debate to digest the results and the reactions and to proceed from initial impressions to some firmer conclusions. I don&rsquo;t just mean evaluations of the individual candidates but conclusions about the direction of the...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Beginning of the End for Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/25/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-donald-trump/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/25/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-donald-trump/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Tracinski</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s too early to declare the end of Donald Trump&rsquo;s presidential campaign, but I think we can begin to see how it&rsquo;s going to happen. Wednesday night, Trump initiated a kind of mini-meltdown in response to a comment from National Review editor Rich Lowry. On Fox News...]]></description>
						</item></channel>
		</rss>