Daniel J. Mahoney in the American Mind boldly predicts that with his magnificent Second Inaugural Address, Donald Trump is headed for greatness. The centrepiece, writes Mahoney, is the new President’s full-throated, across-the-board campaign to drive out ideological leftism, “a creed based on an unholy ideological trinity: borderless globalism, environmental eschatology and puritan wokery” including “racist ‘anti-racism’.”
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.