By: Dr. Robert McClure December 3, 2020 As the rubble from the 2020 election settles and those providing commentary do what they do, I am reminded of a phrase ascribed to French sociologist and philosopher Comte some 200 years ago: Demography is destiny. We've heard it lots over the course [...]
J. Robert McClure / @JmsMadisonInst / November 06, 2020 The Daily Signal Election Day 2020 was many things to many people—depending on your age, philosophy, and geography. It’s probably a Rorschach test for the country. It’s a reminder that our nation is large and complicated, with diverse perspectives crossing numerous cultural lines. For millions [...]
By: Dr. Bob McClure October 15, 2020 The saying goes that the proper way to boil a frog is slowly, a degree or two at a time. That way the frog doesn't hop out. It gets comfortable in that slow, warming pot, until it's too late. I've been thinking about [...]
Dr. Bob McClure Oct 10, 2020 When Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris recently said, “the economy is a disaster,” I thought of both the millions of Americans who get up and go to work every day grateful for the job they have and the many others who are [...]
August 10, 2020 By: Dr. Bob McClure As the parent of two daughters who are entering adulthood, my family has operated on a time-tested strategy that’s completely counter-intuitive to everything in my nature, yet is something I learned in high school biology many years ago. A butterfly only survives by [...]
By Dr. Robert McClure June 16, 2020 Our history over the past 240-plus years has been marked by inflection points — crossroads at which we collectively take a sharp turn in a different direction. The Emancipation Proclamation. Pearl Harbor. As a more recent example, around mid-2001 then-Secretary of Defense Donald [...]
By: Dr. Bob McClure June 02, 2020 In politics, perception is reality. But not in policy. Policy has real-life effects on real people — people we work with and interact with, our friends and family, and even people we never have the privilege to meet. Whether we are looking at [...]
May 15, 2020 By: Dr. Bob McClure Last month a ten-year anniversary passed with little notice. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil platform suffered an explosion that resulted in the largest marine oil spill in history. Over the next several weeks, close to five million barrels (approximately [...]
By: Dr. Bob McClure April 15, 2020 It is hard to imagine today. But in 1788, roughly one year after the founding of our republic, ratification of the U.S. Constitution was in real doubt. Many feared that the Constitution provided too much centralized power to the federal government, risking a [...]
By: Dr. Bob McClure Today just might be the day you receive your invitation to respond to the 2020 Census. Now, I don’t think anyone is waiting by his or her mailbox in wild anticipation of a census form, but in this presidential election year, it’s important to realize just [...]
