Bruce Bartlett
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Bruce Bartlett
@bartlettb.bsky.social
· Jan 18
Banner picture from left: me, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, Bob Bartley, Mrs. Mundell, Bill Middendorf, Bob Mundell, Robert Novak, Jude Wanniski. Dinner hosted by WSJ in 1999 to celebrate Mundell's Nobel Prize.
The greatest TV scene in history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFt...
WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
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November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The greatest TV scene in history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFt...
Trump's socialism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Trump's socialism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Scandal brewing at George Mason University. www.chrisbrunet.com/p/the-karoly...
The Karolyi Dynasty and the Corruption of Academic Finance
''Are you proposing that the editor retracts the paper of his son? What's the point then of being the editor?''
www.chrisbrunet.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Scandal brewing at George Mason University. www.chrisbrunet.com/p/the-karoly...
Excellent critique of both-sides journalism by Frank Bruni of the New York Times. Too bad his employer does it so often. Free article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Excellent critique of both-sides journalism by Frank Bruni of the New York Times. Too bad his employer does it so often. Free article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
I think it's interesting that no postwar Republican president or presidential nominee could get the party's nomination today--including Goldwater and Reagan. They were all much too far to the left. I have receipts. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/when-repub...
When Republicans Used to Be Sane, Even “Compassionate”
Trump Has Erased Their Memory
brucebartlett.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I think it's interesting that no postwar Republican president or presidential nominee could get the party's nomination today--including Goldwater and Reagan. They were all much too far to the left. I have receipts. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/when-repub...
The secret history of when Republican presidents were moderate and sane. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/when-repub...
When Republicans Used to Be Sane, Even “Compassionate”
Trump Has Erased Their Memory
brucebartlett.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The secret history of when Republican presidents were moderate and sane. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/when-repub...
How billionaires took over American politics. Gift article. wapo.st/48nkqMN
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
How billionaires took over American politics. Gift article. wapo.st/48nkqMN
The death of the moderate Republican. I wrote this essay in late 2014 but no one would publish it because no one believed me. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...
The Death of the Moderate Republican
It Long Predates Trump
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The death of the moderate Republican. I wrote this essay in late 2014 but no one would publish it because no one believed me. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...
Trouble in Libertarian Paradise? www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
Exclusive | U.S. Banks Shelve $20 Billion Bailout Plan for Argentina
Bankers are instead discussing a smaller, short-term facility to help Argentina make a roughly $4 billion debt payment in January.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Trouble in Libertarian Paradise? www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
Another good wedge issue for Democrats.
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Another good wedge issue for Democrats.
The rise and fall of Judeo-Christianism. religionnews.com/2025/11/18/o...
On the right, Judeo-Christian values are out and Christian nationalism is in
(RNS) — As someone who has been studying the use of ‘Judeo-Christian’ in American public discourse for over 40 years, I can say with confidence its usage has come full circle.
religionnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The rise and fall of Judeo-Christianism. religionnews.com/2025/11/18/o...
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I have long been dissatisfied with internet links. Readers don't use them, and writers and editors are very lazy about using quality links. For one thing, they almost never use primary sources or even quality sources, relying instead on the first thing that shows up in a Google search.
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I have long been dissatisfied with internet links. Readers don't use them, and writers and editors are very lazy about using quality links. For one thing, they almost never use primary sources or even quality sources, relying instead on the first thing that shows up in a Google search.
Hong Kong was no libertarian paradise. The people had no political rights because it was a British colony. Its free market was imposed by fiat by a British bureaucrat. And the government was far more involved in the economy than libertarians acknowledge. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/can-libert...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hong Kong was no libertarian paradise. The people had no political rights because it was a British colony. Its free market was imposed by fiat by a British bureaucrat. And the government was far more involved in the economy than libertarians acknowledge. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/can-libert...
Can libertarianism succeed in a democratic society? Hong Kong and Chile were both nondemocratic and less free market utopias than libertarians think. Whether Milei in Argentina succeeds remains to be seen. His mishandling of the exchange rate is a bad sign. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/can-libert...
Can Libertarianism Ever Succeed in a Democratic Society?
If It Succeeds in Argentina, It Will Be the First Time
brucebartlett.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Can libertarianism succeed in a democratic society? Hong Kong and Chile were both nondemocratic and less free market utopias than libertarians think. Whether Milei in Argentina succeeds remains to be seen. His mishandling of the exchange rate is a bad sign. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/can-libert...
Trump is really the true historical culmination of the right in America because he is a racist and a fascist. Reagan, ironically, was an aberration because he was neither. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | Reagan, Not Trump, Is the Real G.O.P. Aberration
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Trump is really the true historical culmination of the right in America because he is a racist and a fascist. Reagan, ironically, was an aberration because he was neither. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...