by Henry Oliner | Apr 30, 2015 | Politics
Victor Davis Hanson writes in the National Review, Moral Schizophrenics I am not suggesting that there is a direct connection between the new political correctness and an epidemic of personal dishonesty — only that at best the former has done nothing to discourage the...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 30, 2015 | Economics
from John Mauldin’s Thoughts from the Frontline excerpts: By encouraging a reach for yield in riskier investments because interest rates are abnormally low, the Fed has created an environment in which far more risk is being taken than is normal and healthy. It...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 29, 2015 | Politics
The editors of The Wall Street Journal wrote The Blue-City Model excerpts: You’re not supposed to say this in polite company, but what went up in flames in Baltimore Monday night was not merely a senior center, small businesses and police cars. Burning down was also...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 27, 2015 | Clinton, Democrats, Politics
Bret Stephens writes in The Wall Street Journal, Hillary’s Cynical Song of Self excerpts: Cynicism is the great temptation of modern life. We become cynics because we desperately don’t want to be moralists, and because earnestness is boring, and because skepticism is...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 27, 2015 | Education, Politics
Victor Davis Hanson writes in the National Review, Moral Schizophrenics The provost of Stanford University recently wrote a letter to campus faculty and staff to address a perceived epidemic of student cheating. One report had suggested that 20 percent of the students...
