Justin Katz
John DePetro and Justin Katz review the many ways Rhode Island’s government officials refuse to do address the basics of their jobs.
Maybe my brain is excessively wired to see connections and patterns, but the raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and the Biden administration’s efforts to bully Catholic schools into promoting radical sexual ideology seem very much connected. Rod Dreher gets us most of the way there, in an essay titled “Trump & Our Late Roman…
The economic news is peculiar, lately. Inflation is high, and the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is shrinking. Yet, government data shows a strong increase in payroll jobs in the most-recent month. It’s difficult to know which side of that “yet” the following news supports, or whether it helps explain how all of the above…
As long as I’ve been paying attention to politics in Rhode Island, mainstream Republicans have given the impression that they are ashamed of their affiliation — that they just found the ruling Democrats to be so off-base and corrupt that they needed a different option, and the GOP was the only viable one. This isn’t…
John DePetro and Justin Katz call out the ways RI politicians are hiding from reality.
An underappreciated risk laps at the legs of our advanced knowledge. When people didn’t know why things were happening in the world around them or how to predict change, they just dealt with them. They invested some energy in a relationship with gods in the hope of exerting some control on their environments, but mostly,…
As local media sources have started to track instances of monkeypox in our area, I’ve wondered how many Rhode Islanders know that it is mostly (although not entirely) a venereal disease spreading mostly among gay men. Except, as Rod Dreher points out, that’s not a fact to which we’re permitted to react: Scott Gottlieb, former…
When discussing public policy, responsible politicians, journalists, and members of the public should never separate the issues of energy and the environment. They are a single, nuanced, and extremely complicated issue. Absent this imperative, Democrat Governor Dan McKee feels free to brag about his environmental policy thus … “Over last 16 months my administration has…
John DePetro and Justin Katz comment as the Rhode Island campaign season heats up.
The secret is that we can always be geniune.