by Henry Oliner | Aug 13, 2019 | Culture, Economics
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...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 22, 2018 | Culture, Progressivism
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...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 15, 2018 | Culture, Democrats, Politics, Progressivism, Religion
It is interesting that of nine justices, all but one is either Catholic or Jewish. The ninth, Gorsuch, was raised Catholic but is currently an Episcopalian. Catholics represent 5 of 9 Supreme Court justices but only 23.9% of the population. Jews are a third of the...
by Henry Oliner | May 30, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From David Brooks at The New York Times, The Strange Failure of the Educated Elite: Once upon a time, white male Protestants ruled the roost. You got into a fancy school if your father had gone to the fancy school. You got a job at a white-shoe law firm or climbed the...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 6, 2017 | Culture, Democrats
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,”...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 5, 2017 | Culture, Democrats, Politics
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...
