Europe Needs Doughnut Shops

The stagnation and decline in Europe raise several thoughts. In the aftermath of World War Two their private sector was woefully unable to provide the immediate needs of a devastated population. This reality and the greater tolerance for socialist ideology and central...

The Complex and the Difficult

from The Wall Street Journal,  The Humanities’ Decline Makes Us Morally Obtuse by Paula Marantz Cohen: The assumption these days is that people are monolithic—either completely good or completely bad. The best way to repudiate that assumption it to study the...

Targeted Resentment

How the Democrats Lost the White Working Class- Book review of White Working Class by Joan Williams- reviewed by Joe Queenan in Barron’s: “The working class…has been asked to swallow a lot of economic pain, while elites have focused on noneconomic issues,”...

Generation Z

from Selena Zito,  Why the generation after millennials will vote Republican “They are not as impressed with fame — celebrities, athletes, politicians — as are their predecessors, since fame in their lifetime has become rather easy to obtain with social media and...