Mona Charen

But part of my focus was a belief that

the worst days of racism were really behind us, that only really kooks and fringe figures were still like old-fashioned racists in America, and that the new problems were things like, you know, the teachers unions were too powerful and didn't allow

school experimentation and reform and family structure was a problem in the black community, of course, in all communities, but it started in the black community with family breakup and that we needed to focus more on building up family structure because that was so important for people's success.

And what I saw in the last 10 years showed me that I was really, I had underestimated the degree to which the naked racism that had been part of American history and which I was very familiar with, but did not think persisted to this day.

I now think that was wrong, that there is a tremendous amount of it and that it was naive of me to believe that we had conquered it.

So that's one thing.

So I still believe that free markets are the best approach to many public policy challenges.

I still believe...

passionately in free trade, looking for a party.

That's right.

Yeah, agreed.

So that's one.

Similarly, I continue to believe in market-oriented solutions to climate change.

I think that the idea of creating prizes for new technology or all these kinds of things that economists have taught us are effective.

That's the direction that I would go.

I'm afraid, again, there's no constituency for that.

Let's see.

Fiscal discipline.

Worry about the debt.

Again, no party.