by Henry Oliner | Feb 28, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
from Kevin Williamson at National Review An Enemies List Is Not a Philosophy : The “moral equivalent of war” mentality is useful when it comes to organizing and funding large projects that are truly national: the Apollo project, rural electrification, the canals and...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 27, 2018 | Politics
From Richard Epstein in today’s WSJ, The Only Good Thing About Donald Trump Is All His Policies: What is to be done? I wonder if we might start with journalism. What if American reporters began by ignoring Mr. Trump’s tweets, treating them as no more than the...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 26, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
from Kevin Williamson at National Review An Enemies List Is Not a Philosophy : “The moral equivalent of war” (which is really the political equivalent of war) is more useful as rhetoric than as an actual model for organizing domestic reforms, as evidenced by the...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 24, 2018 | Guns
by Henry Oliner Another shooting and another blame fest. More memes, virtue signaling, intolerance, “please unfriend me if you believe…..”, Yes, we have too many guns that are too easily available. Yes, we have a culture of violence that enriches Hollywood and their...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 20, 2018 | History, Philosophy, Politics
Just finished Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis and recommend it. Adams and Jefferson were the first partisans (that makes George Washington the only nonpartisan U.S. President) and were bitterly opposed, but came to find peace through correspondence in their senior...
