by Henry Oliner | Mar 23, 2022 | Media, Politics, Progressivism
From Invasion of the Fact-Checkers by Jacob Siegel at Tablet: By putting an official stamp on obvious manipulations of language, the fact-checkers license false and misleading coverage by outlets that playact the quaint 20th-century practice of objective news...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kevin Williamson at National Review, Autocracy’s Fatal Flaws: excerpt: The old truths remain unchanged: The free world isn’t free because it is rich — it is rich because it is free. Freedom is not only a moral good but also a practical one: Because we have a...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 19, 2022 | Media
A fascinating polling piece at YouGov.com illuminated how much we overestimate the size of minority groups whether it is Blacks, Jews, lesbians, transgenders or millionaires. How can it be that in a nation drowning in sources and distribution of information we can be...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kevin Williamson writes A Problem Like Putin in National Review. (paywalled – but Kevin alone is reason to subscribe) Williamson refers to the chapter in Road to Serfdom, “Why the Worst Get on Top.” I found this same chapter the most striking of the...
