by Henry Oliner | Oct 22, 2022 | Politics
The push for ESG and DEI may resonate with the wealthy white woke, but it also seems to correlate with a great shift of minority voters to the Republicans. I often find the publicized push for DEI to be patronizing and undermining to the real accomplishments of...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 9, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics
From Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen interviews Walter Russell Mead Excerpt: COWEN: How would you change or improve the training that goes into America’s foreign policy elite? MEAD: Well, I would start by trying to draw people’s attention to that, over the last 40...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 17, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
Dan McLaughlin expresses a perspective of cultural ‘wokeness’ and its counter reaction in The New Republicanism in National Review. Republicanism in America was represented as an alternative to monarchy, but the role of monarchy in its relation to...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 4, 2022 | Media, Politics
Forty years ago, we all got our news from three TV stations (CBS, ABC and NBC), the same local newspapers, and a small handful of magazines (Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News). A few would supplement their reading with The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal and...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 21, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
The right often mistakenly identifies republicanism at the founding as a conscious distinction from democracy. For the founders it was a distinction from monarchy and aristocracy. The idea of an unfiltered or unrestrained democracy was too unserious to consider....
