by Henry Oliner | Aug 31, 2017 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
by Henry Oliner “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” Friedrich August von Hayek The difference between a liberal and a conservative is often just the time frame. Short...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 31, 2017 | Democrats, Politics, Progressivism
Mark Lilla is a committed Democrat who admonishes his party for the its descent into Identity Politics in The Once and Future Liberal- After Identity Politics The paradox of identity liberalism is that it paralyzes the capacity to think and act in a way that would...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 30, 2017 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
from Scientific American, The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism- The roots of the current campus madness, by Michael Shermer: In a 1946 essay in the London Tribune entitled “In Front of Your Nose,” George Orwell noted that “we are all capable of believing...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 29, 2017 | Economics
from an interview with Cory Doctorow in Reason Magazine, Cory Doctorow’s ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communist Civilization’: New at Reason Is it fair to say that science fiction writers are doing the same thing as a good economist or a good political...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 28, 2017 | Democrats, Politics, Progressivism
Mark Lilla is a committed Democrat who admonishes his party for the its descent into Identity Politics in The Once and Future Liberal- After Identity Politics Up until the 1960s, those active in liberal and progressive politics were drawn largely from the working...
