by Henry Oliner | Jan 31, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From National Review, Victor Davis Hanson, The Progressive Race to the Bottom: The new, new Left questions not the operation of American democracy but the very premise of American democracy. When the selection of the Senate leads to something abhorrent like a...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 29, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From National Review, Victor Davis Hanson, The Progressive Race to the Bottom: The media are not just becoming left-wing (they’ve always has been); they’re no longer even a news-gathering operation. Reporting is synonymous with editorializing. Fake news — whether the...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 28, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
I listened to Cooke’s passioned rant on the recent Mad Dogs and Englishmen podcast with Kevin Williamson on the drive back from Hilton Head this morning. His passion translates will into his words. From Charlie Cooke at National Review, Bad Press:...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 27, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From National Review, Involuntary Identity Politics by Kevin Williamson: If you ever have spent any time around racial bigots of the old-fashioned peckerwood-trash variety, you have seen this dynamic in action: A black man who commits a crime is not a black man who...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 26, 2019 | Politics, Social
From The Wall Street Journal, Left-Wing Politics and the Decline of Sociology, by Jackson Toby: Coleman himself believed that racial segregation was morally wrong, but professionally he conducted the educational-inequality survey as objectively as he could—not to...