by Henry Oliner | Apr 20, 2025 | Philosophy, Politics
From The Wrong Kind of Abundance by Kevin Williamson at The Dispatch. Zweig intelligently catalogues a number of underlying factors that positioned the American expert class to make all the wrong decisions while trying to make the most of the crisis, putting it to the...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 19, 2025 | Philosophy, Politics
Some historians contend that the American Revolution was not a revolution readily compared to others in history. It can be distinguished as a War for Independence or as historian H.W Brands called it, Our First Civil War in his book by that title. Given its close...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 9, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics
From Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen interviews Walter Russell Mead Excerpt: COWEN: How would you change or improve the training that goes into America’s foreign policy elite? MEAD: Well, I would start by trying to draw people’s attention to that, over the last 40...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 17, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
Dan McLaughlin expresses a perspective of cultural ‘wokeness’ and its counter reaction in The New Republicanism in National Review. Republicanism in America was represented as an alternative to monarchy, but the role of monarchy in its relation to...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 7, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
Principles are how the world works. Ideologies are how we want the world to work or how we accept the reality of how we want the world to work. Principles are not accountable to ideologies; ideologies are accountable to principles. Solutions that become principles...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 9, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics
From Kevin Williamson at National Review, A Marxist Homecoming: One of the political difficulties of conservatism — and here I mean American conservatism, not the imported kind — is that by its nature it does not offer much in the way of novelty, excitement, or even...
