by Henry Oliner | Nov 13, 2016 | Culture, Economics
From The Washington Post Ana Swanson writes Why The Industrial Revolutions didn’t happen in China The article is mostly an interview with Joel Mokyr about his new book , A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. It appears to travel on similar...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 5, 2016 | Culture, Democrats, Politics
from Kevin Williamson at the National Review, Bitter Laughter A nation needs its Twains and Menckens. (We could have got by without Molly Ivins.) The excrement and sentimentality piles up high and thick in a democratic society, and it’s sometimes easier to burn it...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 3, 2016 | Culture
from Mark Judge in The National Review, Is Contemporary Liberalism Creating a Soulless Monoculture? Legutko’s thesis is that liberal democracies have something in common with communism: the sense that time is inexorably moving towards a kind of human utopia, and that...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 14, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Politics
From Joel Kotkin at New Geography, TODAY’S TECH OLIGARCHS ARE WORSE THAN THE ROBBER BARONS Now from San Francisco to Washington and Brussels, the tech oligarchs are something less attractive: a fearsome threat whose ambitions to control our future politics, media, and...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 1, 2016 | Culture, Democrats, Economics, Guns, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
These are some of the best articles that stood out to me so far this year- and a few of mine . America Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem; It Has a Democrat Problem from Sultan Knish Chicago’s murder rate of 15.09 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2 rate,...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 17, 2016 | Culture, Guns
America has a gun problem. We can argue if the guns are a symptom of a crime problem, a cultural problem or a terrorist problem; or if they are a cause. But we can certainly agree that we would like to reduce violent gun deaths. We can likely agree that we would like...
