Publius Audax

The Wall Street Journal has long had problems thinking through its editorials and their implications. On August 30, it ran a really...

We are spending 2.1 times per capita more on healthcare than Canadians do only to have increasingly shorter lifespans than they do. To...

Over three years ago Publius gave Xi Jin Ping his marching orders and predicted that he would be unable to execute them. Xi has...

Dumb Don is like the frog in a pot being heated slowly to the boiling point. The frog has no idea that the water is getting hotter and...

It is a long-established and well-received tradition in the U.S. that those with means can buy their kids’ way into university: ...

Nancy Pelosi mastered TruMP. When Dumb Don paraphrased Winston Churchill’s immortal words, assuring us that for a down payment of $5.7B,...

And why it cannot do it. You would imagine that getting its clock cleaned in the mid-term Congressional elections would have the GOP...

Voters next week need to know: how Dumb can Dumb Don be? He used the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by...

What went wrong at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings? Simple. No men showed up. Every man knows that when accused...

Dumb Don has decided to force Americans to pay way more for what they buy and to live much worse as a result. In Don’s New Socialism,...

A few years ago, a group of business executives asked Publius to discuss the value of investing in Turkey. He answered with one word,...

As Publius showed in Xi Jinping Drives China Down, Xi, top boss of The Center of Everything (“China” above, in Chinese) faces an...

To preserve shareholder value, every CEO in the world must study Publius’ Trump Management Protocol—TruMP—and pass the TruMP exam. The...

In the biggest upheaval in global alignments since Waterloo, 203 years ago today, over only four days between June 8th and 12th, Dumb Don...

Today, the New York Times published the list of questions that Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask Dumb Don. While they are not...

With the exit of Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, the GOP is leaving the stage after more than a century and a half. As Publius showed...

The NRA has admitted its deep-seated addiction to terrorism. The NRA insists that our government’s policy that any terrorist should have...

Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has just failed his TruMP exam. Spectacularly. Publius laid out The Trump...

No one in the Republican coalition or Democratic Party will tell you this. Deporting 1.2 million DACA and TPS recipients will drive the...

Thank you for allowing Michael Wolff into your inner circle for eighteen months so that he could chronicle in Fire and Fury how hard you...