by Henry Oliner | Dec 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was trying to come up with something profound for a year end post, but it would be hard to top this piece from Kevin Williamson at National Review: This Will Be Our Year excerpt: Politics matters, but it is not the only thing that matters, and if we allow political...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 26, 2019 | Economics
from Capitalism Isn’t a ‘System’ by Barton Swaim at The Wall Street Journal: What’s odd about Mr. Giridharadas’s essay, and others like it, is that the reader is simply expected to understand how the word “capitalism” stands for everything allegedly wrong with the...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 15, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From Kevin Williams at National Review, ‘Republicans Pounce,’ Bigly: It is the Democrats who are willing to undermine our institutions — accepting the incompetence and corruption at the FBI, IRS, NLRB, and more while pouring scorn on the efforts of inspectors general...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 15, 2019 | Anti Semitism
from Caroline Glick, Why American Jews slander President Trump: The shooting in Jersey City marked a predictable escalation of the anti-Semitic attacks being carried out against Orthodox Jews in the New York area. The focal points of the attacks to date have been the...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 12, 2019 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
An excellent read from David Solway at Pajama Media, The Insanity of Progressivism Comes Right Out of Gulliver’s Travels: Of course, the original Lagadians were not, technically speaking, socialists; they were fantasists pursing a collective delusion. But then,...