Today’s Editors’ Choice

• R. Emmett Tyrrell: James T. Hodgkinson: Just Another Well-Intentioned Progressive
• Larry Elder: Minimum Wage Laws are Destroying Jobs — Just as Predicted
• George Will: Let Us Plunge Toward Our Fast-Unfolding Future

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Opinion in Brief

R. Emmett Tyrrell: “Truth be known, the American Left, and that includes most of the MSM, has become quite morbid in its fascinations. The whole way it talks about poverty, the environment, immigration, race — practically any social problem — is morbid. I look at The New York Times and The Washington Post every morning. They sit there on my breakfast table. Rarely does their front page not feature what the political philosopher Kenneth Minogue called a ‘suffering situation’: several starving Africans; a corpse or two from some hellhole; an impoverished Appalachian family with at least one child, his head shaved because of cancer or some other horrible malady; a gay couple that has suffered a setback. I could go on, but you get my point. The MSM is obsessed with misery, social strife and — dare I say it — political correctness. As long as these values dominate and there is no mitigating alternative, the public had best be armed.”