by Henry Oliner | Jun 28, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From The Washington Post and George Will, Progressives are wrong about the essence of the Constitution: The fundamental division in U.S. politics is between those who take their bearings from the individual’s right to a capacious, indeed indefinite, realm of freedom,...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
from Matthew Continetti at National Review, They’re Wrong About Everything The fact is that almost the entirety of what one reads in the paper or on the web is speculation. The writer isn’t telling you what happened, he is offering an interpretation of what happened,...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 26, 2017 | Politics
From Jonah Goldberg at National Review, Politics Enters the Fast Lane: Oh, there is one point I want to make about Nancy Pelosi, other than the fact that she always looks like she just left a Ludovico treatment session and her eyes haven’t readjusted. Last night on...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 25, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
William Voegeli wrote an important book, Never Enough which I highly recommend. In National Review he writes Why the Liberal Elite Will Never Check Its Privilege Speaking of Orwell, his observation that all leftist political parties are “at bottom a sham, because they...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 24, 2017 | Politics
From Jonah Goldberg at National Review, Politics Enters the Fast Lane: Everything we know about how Trump tweets, and talks, and acts, tells us that he lives in the moment. He even brags about it. His one concession to the future is his insatiable need to keep his...