by Henry Oliner | Sep 6, 2020 | Media, Politics
From Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept; Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite: But journalism is not supposed to be grounded in whether something is “believable” or “seems like it could be true.” Its core purpose, the only thing that...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 6, 2020 | Philosophy, Politics
From the Saturday WSJ Review section, Land of Free (and Fettered) Speech by Adam Kirsch: excerpts: At a town meeting, however, people are speaking to their neighbors, who they know in real life and might meet the next day. In those circumstances, there’s a pressure to...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 5, 2020 | Economics, Taxes
The Great Tax Wars by Steven Weisman (2002) is a history of the establishment of the income tax in America. It is very well written, very readable and an excellent component of the development of the progressive political movement. We take the income tax for granted,...
