The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council
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From The Washington Times, Language Labels and Laws, by Richard Rahn The “progressive” Hillary Clinton wants more government regulation, spending, and taxation, while the “progressive” Bill Clinton told us two decades ago that the “era of big government is over”
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from Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem, this quote from Ayn Rand: Throughout the history of Europe, the values and ideas of its people never changed on one basic point: Europe is a state-worshiping culture. It has always worshipped the power of
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From The Sultan Knish, The Traditionalist Rebel Leftist movements begin with rebellion and end with conformity. No Utopian movement can tolerate rebels for long because there is no room for dissent in paradise. An ideal society, the goal of leftist
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When We Say ‘Conservative,’ We Mean . . . by Jonah Goldberg at National Review I think this is because conservatism isn’t a single thing. Indeed, as I have argued before, I think it’s a contradictory thing, a bundle of
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Henry Oliner 2016.01.25 I recall years ago, reading a marketing newsletter call Towers about focus. The author whose name I do not recall advised to spend 20 minutes a day reading on a narrowly focused and defined topic so that
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from Daniel Larison at The American Conservative, Ideology vs Principle Well, it matters which word you choose, because ideals, dogma, and principles are words that refer to things that are significantly different from ideology. If these words all seem to
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Henry Oliner 2106 01 19 Richard Hofstadter’s Anti- Intellectualism in America is often used by liberals to explain why conservatives vote as they do. Hofstadter was motivated to expand on the subject by the rejection of Adlai Stevenson to the
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from Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal, Clinton is Already Vowing to Overreach: This is no small matter. “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands,” James Madison warned in Federalist 47, “may justly be pronounced
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Michael Shermer reviews Matt Ridley’s The Evolution of Everything in The Wall Street Journal excerpt of the review Examples abound in Mr. Ridley’s analysis. To cite a few: “The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm
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From Never Enough by William Voegeli “The broader social problem was that the alleviation of poverty, whether from government programs or the advance of capitalism, had liberated people to pursue private goals, which, though not necessarily antisocial, were apt to be asocial
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One of the significant lessons of the 20th Century intellectual history is the limitation of great minds and ideas, the inability and failure of some of the brightest thinkers to comprehend the consequences of their grand ideas, designed with great
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From Never Enough by William Voegeli “Etymologically, “compassion” means to suffer together. “Together,” however, is different from “identically.” Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really the opposite of selfishness. Rather, it provides a basis for helping
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from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization Excerpt: Vigorous civilizations pursue meaningful risks. Decadent civilizations pursue meaningless ones. For a vigorous civilization, adventure ends with an accomplishment. For a decadent civilization, risk is the accomplishment. The
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from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization Excerpt: The barbaric and vigorous civilizations speak little of sex and yet have high birth rates. Decadent civilizations are obsessed with sex and have few children. Perversions multiply in
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from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization Excerpt: A major difference between vigorous and decadent civilizations is objectivity and long term thinking. Decadents are incapable of either while vigorous civilizations thrive on both. If decadent civilizations
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from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization Excerpt: Decadents want emotional rewards without commitments. As a result they are constantly unhappy. They pursue happiness as if it were a quality that could be permanently obtained through
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from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization Excerpt: Decadents confuse criticism and curation with creativity. They develop great sensitivity to everything from literary styles to foods. In a decadent society, everyone is a cultivated critic, but
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From Walter Williams, Academic Fascism: excerpt: This micro-aggression nonsense, called micro-totalitarianism by my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell (http://tinyurl.com/nxulxc), is nothing less than an attack on free speech. From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free
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from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization Excerpt: The decadents are great categorizers. They know where everything should belong. They employ armies of bureaucrats to operate vast filing systems which never quite work as planned. They
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