by Henry Oliner | Nov 28, 2015 | Global Warming
From Matt Ridley and Benny Peiser at The Wall Street Journal, Your Complete Guide to the Climate Debate; To put it bluntly, climate change and its likely impact are proving slower and less harmful than we feared, while decarbonization of the economy is proving more...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 28, 2015 | Politics
from Jonah Goldberg at National Review, The Left’s Illogical Logic of Diversity Ellison was hardly alone. Everyone seems to be talking about those American “values” of tolerance, diversity, and pluralism. Obama has been on a tear about how rejecting refugees is “not...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 28, 2015 | Education
from Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Pink Guards on Campus The Pink Guards have declared war on freedom of speech, demanding official retribution against those expressing even such innocuous sentiments as “all lives matter.” Indeed, they have declared...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 28, 2015 | Politics, Progressivism
“The unique threat of today’s left-wing political religions is precisely that they claim to be free from dogma. Instead, they profess to be champions of liberty and pragmatism, which in their view are self-evident goods. They eschew “ideological” concerns. Therefore...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 27, 2015 | Economics
Carly Fiorina schools Hillary on the economy in Hillary Clinton Flunks Economics in The Wall Street Journal: And yet Hillary Clinton said on Oct. 13 in the first Democratic presidential debate, “The economy does better when you have a Democrat in the White House,” and...