Justin Katz
… if you see people citing the strange flash flooding in the Providence area and Rt. 95 as evidence of “climate change,” ask them whether the blame mightn’t more reasonably land on government officials’ poor management of the infrastructure under their authority.
The Rhode Island Saga, Post 2 When people begin thinking in a deliberate way about how to turn their ideas, capital, and effort into businesses (which they sometimes get around to years after they’ve started operations), I put the process in terms of a story. The hero of the story is, obviously, the person or…
The Rhode Island Saga, Post 1 Somehow, I’d naively believed that my ridiculously busy summer would cool as the children returned to school and I overcame a few large projects. New content from me on Anchor Rising has certainly been lacking, and I apologize for that, but more has simply not been possible. To recap:…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the harm of a political system so monolithic those who disagree are outcasts.
Although families and individuals who can show a direct link to harm by a specific government entity should, of course, have recourse, the idea that a city, state, or country should broadly atone for the sins of the people who used to live there is wrong-headed even in concept — more so in a churning,…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the ways in which Rhode Island politics encourage or discourage candidates.
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…