Monthly Archives: April 2017

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Left and Right Democracy

From Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Anglo-Americans: American politicians of the Left use “democracy” in the vaguest possible way, as a catch-all for all things good in politics, even the un-democratic and anti-democratic ones. Politicians of the Right use

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Corporate Progressives

from Why Corporate Leaders Became Progressive Activists by Kevin Williamson: If you have not read it, spare a moment for William H. Whyte’s Cold War classic. In the 1950s, Whyte, a writer for Fortune, interviewed dozens of important CEOs and

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Venezuelan Pragmatism

From National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, Throw Away the New Playbook: What he meant by this is that sometimes you can’t be told something, you have to see it or experience it for yourself. I could write a dozen different columns

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Foolish Measures of Happiness

The main problem, though, as I said, is that the insights of poets and taletellers and historians and philosophers from the beginning into what human man happiness actually is have simply been bypassed. “Happiness” viewed as self-reported mood is surely

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