by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
The left is so fearful that Trump is the existential crisis of our time that they approve any means to remove him, even if it includes the same intolerance and illiberalism that they fear from him. Jacobin mobs that pay little respect to due process or constitutional...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2020 | Science, Social
From Unheard, Why We Stopped Trusting Experts: Ritchie’s section on bias also includes a clear account of some technical elements of statistical reasoning, failures to adhere to which are Ritchie classes as “analytic biases.” These biases include things like only...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
For years my reading has focused on the development and evolution of the Progressive Era. Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Era thinkers challenged the founding principles of natural and individual rights and how they were used to design a government with limited power,...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 7, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
from Greg Weiner at National Review, Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, ‘All in All’: There is a Yiddish saying: When a man wears a white coat, a speck of dust makes it look dirty. That is true enough, especially if one lives in a world devoid of nuance, where heroes...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 4, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
The American Revolution of 1776 can best be understood by comparing it to the French Revolution of 1789; one led to a political document that empowered the rise of a great nation and the other led to a reign of terror and centuries of devastation. Both claimed liberty...
