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Issue #43 | December 2020

Santa Claus Isn't Coming To Town

Our December issue is packed with original political and financial content by P.J. O’Rourke, Trish Regan, and other economic experts... with some holiday humor sprinkled throughout.

Featuring:

Kim Iskyan, Patrick Wensink, Brian Darling

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December 2020

Hit the Road, Jack

To hell with last year… Let’s celebrate 2021! By Buck Sexton On a recent Saturday night, I ate at Le Bernardin in Midtown Manhattan. It’s a Michelin-starred Eric Ripert restaurant with a fish-heavy...

Buck Sexton

December 2020

Georgia on My Mind

This State Is Crucial for Dem’s Government Power By Trish Regan Now we take Georgia!” yelled Chuck Schumer, the Democratic senator from New York, as he signed autographs and posed for pictures with...

Trish Regan

December 2020

That’s Not Really Socialism

Biden Isn’t Bringing Socialism to America… It’s Already Here By Kim Iskyan Come January 20, 2021, the U.S. is going to become the U.S.S. – that is, the United Socialist States. At least...

Kim Iskyan

December 2020

The Exploding Debt Crisis

We Can No Longer Ignore This Massive National Threat By Brian Darling Another national crisis is coming… more serious than a nuclear-armed Iran or even the existing coronavirus pandemic. Government spending and...

Brian Darling

December 2020

Making Sense of Sky-High Stock Prices

By Robert J. Shiller, Laurence Black, and Farouk Jivraj There has been much puzzlement that the world’s stock markets haven’t collapsed in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and especially in the United...

Farouk Jivraj, Laurence Black, Robert J. Shiller

December 2020

Brother, Can You Spare Me a PhD?

The Failure of the College Loan Program By Richard Vedder “College-Loan Debt Hits Parents Hard” screams a front-page headline in the December 3 Wall Street Journal. We are told by triumphant President-elect...

Richard Vedder

December 2020

Has COVID Killed the Mall Santa?

By Patrick Wensink When you step back and look at him from the right angle, Santa Claus is some combination of action hero and reverse cat burglar. The guy is fearless. Who else could land a team of flying reindeer atop...

Patrick Wensink

December 2020

Baby, It’s COVID Outside

We’re Singing a Different Tune This Christmas By P.J. O’Rourke It’s Christmas 2020 and we’ve lost the plot… This year, none of our favorite Christmas traditions make any sense. This year...

P. J. O’Rourke

December 2020

Life After Covid

A little clarity on what stays and what goes Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke Returning to a world where a global plague isn’t killing people by the million, sickening...

P. J. O’Rourke

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