by Henry Oliner | Oct 24, 2024 | Politics
Given everything that has been thrown at Trump- two impeachments, four major indictments and convictions, mass defections from establishment Republicans, widely brandished as a fascist, and a virulently hostile media- how is he still even close to victory? This is an...
by Henry Oliner | May 1, 2024 | Politics
Permanent solutions to short term problems will create new problems. Reality is not optional. Our political differences often hinge on the different meanings we assign to words. Our political differences also depend on the different priorities we assign to issues....
by Henry Oliner | Mar 3, 2024 | Politics
On a recent Real Time with Bill Maher, guest Batya Ungar-Sargon commented how the Democrats have lost the working class. Democrat Tim Ryan retorted how much the Biden has done for the working class with his spending programs and how Biden was the most pro union...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 20, 2024 | Progressivism
From the blog No Delusions, No Despair (another good blog name), The rise of barbaric progressivism: Shortly before he died in the late 1930s, Sigmund Freud, by then a refugee from Nazism, wrote, “We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 16, 2023 | Politics, Progressivism
Kevin Williamson writes the lead article in the Saturday WSJ Review Section, Election 2024: You Asked for It America: For most of my life, the dominant myth that informed American politics was that there was too much “big money” in the system, that Washington...
