by Henry Oliner | Apr 30, 2018 | Politics
The left has unleashed forces that threaten to turn on them. Victimization or identity politics has turned up in the offices of Hollywood and media; two of the cultural safe houses of the left. Harvey Weinstein opened the door and unleashed charges against actors and...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 29, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg’s new book: Perhaps the Constitution’s most important contribution is its most prosaic quality: It’s written down and very hard to change. Being written down for all to read gives ownership to everyone and creates what economists call “path...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 27, 2018 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
I have been a fan of Jonah Goldberg’s writing and his podcast, the Remnant. His book, Liberal Fascism, is a critical comparison of the policies of the progressive era and Mussolini’s fascism (as distinct from Hitler’s). One could contend that progressivism was just...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 21, 2018 | Media, Politics, Progressivism
In today’s (4/21/18) WSJ Kevin Williamson gives his view of his very short tenure at Atlantic Magazine in When the Twitter Mob Came for Me. Which brings us back to that event at South by Southwest, where the Atlantic was sponsoring a panel about marginalized...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Jonah Goldberg newest book, Suicide of the West will be released next week. This piece in National Review of the same name is a thesis of his book: Why stress that the Miracle was both unnatural and accidental? Because Western civilization generally, and America...
