Lipton Matthews

The New York Times claimed in its 1619 Project that plantation slavery was the basis for American capitalism. However, research shows that the plantations were anything but capitalist enterprises.

No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians like Donald Trump did not cause the crisis. Instead, as Lawrence Mead writes, they are a symptom of the government's assault on our culture.

Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” not corrupted by profit seeking. However, politics corrupts science research more than anything else.