by Henry Oliner | Dec 24, 2021 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From Phil Gramm and Mike Salon a The Wall Street Journal, The Stagflation is Coming: In imposing ObamaCare, government increasingly dominated the healthcare industry, the green energy agenda hit auto producers and power plants and stifled the domestic energy industry...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 16, 2021 | Philosophy, Politics
From Kevin Williamson at National Review, The March of the New American Leninists: For Vladimir Lenin, a revolution required three preconditions: The masses had to be unwilling to accept the status quo, the ruling class had to be unable to enforce the status quo, and,...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 12, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From Liel Leibovitz at Tablet, The Turn: You might be living through The Turn if you ever found yourself feeling like free speech should stay free even if it offended some group or individual but now can’t admit it at dinner with friends because you are afraid of...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 11, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Alumni $$ will be weaponized https://www.city-journal.org/mit-caves-to-wokeness Pointing out MIT’s lapses and withdrawing our financial support of the offending institution is insufficient. We would like to suggest a way for MIT to return to our good graces and hope...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
There is a specially ironic element in the effort of the seventeenth century to confine man to the limits of a harmless “nature” or to bring all his actions under the discipline of a cool prudence. For while democratic social philosophy was elaborating the picture of...
