by Henry Oliner | Jul 30, 2017 | Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
Mark Levin is a rabid right wing radio talk show host. Because I at least scan about any title with the word progressivism in it, I viewed his latest book Rediscovering Americanism: and the Tyranny of Progressivism and was pleasantly surprised at the depth of his...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 29, 2017 | Democrats, Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From Ted Van Dyk at The Wall Street Journal, The Democrats’ Biggest Problem Is Cultural: The Democratic voter exodus began in 1968 when millions of traditional blue-collar and middle-income voters moved to Republican Richard Nixon or third-party candidate George...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 28, 2017 | Economics, Health Care, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
by Henry Oliner The reason ideology is relevant in the health care debate is that at the core of the difficulty is the separation of pragmatic solutions from sound ideological support. Our health care problem is an accumulation of short sighted policies considered in...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 26, 2017 | Law
Another gem from Kevin Williamson, A National State of Non-Emergency in National Review: The recently proffered Republican health-care bill instantiates much of what is wrong with our politics: The bill was constructed through an extraordinary process in which there...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 25, 2017 | Economics
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in The Twenty First Century, has spawned a cottage industry of dissent. Piketty uses masses of data to illuminate a growth in inequality, that he surmises is an inevitable result of capitalism and can only be resolved by painfully high taxes...
