by Henry Oliner | May 30, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
from the Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley writes about Thomas Sowell in The Soul of Black Conservatism: Liberal elites expected whites to solve the problems of blacks. They still do. Newer movements like Black Lives Matter, and younger public intellectuals such as...
by Henry Oliner | May 29, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at the Dispatch, Conservatism, Not Populism: In fairness to those who say “we live in a republic, not a democracy,” what they usually have in mind, I think, is that there are limits to democracy. That’s why we say we live in a “liberal democracy,”...
by Henry Oliner | May 24, 2021 | Economy, Taxes
I had a letter in the weekend WSJ responding to Rahm Emanuel’s article earlier in the week: Not Every Quintile Pays its Fair Share Rahm Emanuel is correct when he claims the Republicans have lost credibility on taxes (“Why the GOP has Gone Quiet Over Tax Hikes,”...
by Henry Oliner | May 24, 2021 | Media
from Erick Erickson, Fear, Loathing, and the GOP: In the process, the media is further alienating themselves from the truth and the public from the media. The reality is that the American public is less and less inclined to believe the media’s version of events. When...
by Henry Oliner | May 24, 2021 | Media, Politics
From Kevin Williamson in National Review, The Distraction Storm: What we do at the personal level, we also do at the political level. That is why we are so fixated on statues put up a century ago and on the average daily temperatures a century hence — anything to...
