by Henry Oliner | Feb 27, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Election Thoughts 2020 02 27 The Democratic Party is in the midst of an ideological struggle between moderate progressives and socialists. In many ways they’re not far apart on an ideological spectrum; the progressives have a greater faith in market economics but are...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 26, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
I have criticized Democrats for failing to understand their 2016 loss to Donald Trump. Rather than face their own shortcomings in the eyes of their voters, they demonized them as deplorables and refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the election, blaming Russian...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 25, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
If socialism is so great, then why is Paul Krugman so insistent that Bernie is not a socialist? What is the difference between a social democrat and a socialist? Why is Bernie so comfortable with a label that his Democratic supporters are trying to avoid? For those...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 23, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
When Trump won in 2016, I wondered if his victory was simply a rejection of a flawed and incompetent candidate or a rejection of the policies and philosophy of the losing party. Otherwise intelligent Democrats still grasp to conspiracy theories of Russian collusion...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
From today’s Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley addresses the 1619 Project in A Bid To Review the New York Times’s Bad History. Many of the top historians on America founding find the 1619 Project riddled with gross inaccuracies and ignores the reality that...
