by Henry Oliner | Feb 20, 2024 | Progressivism
From the blog No Delusions, No Despair (another good blog name), The rise of barbaric progressivism: Shortly before he died in the late 1930s, Sigmund Freud, by then a refugee from Nazism, wrote, “We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 16, 2023 | Politics, Progressivism
Kevin Williamson writes the lead article in the Saturday WSJ Review Section, Election 2024: You Asked for It America: For most of my life, the dominant myth that informed American politics was that there was too much “big money” in the system, that Washington...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 11, 2023 | Progressivism
In George Will’s excellent essay in National Review, The Consciousness Project, he touches on the importance of three fundamental principles supporting our constitution: Human nature is both flawed and permanent. It has been interesting to note that governments...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 21, 2023 | Politics, Progressivism
from Kevin Williamson at The Dispatch, Curb Your Enthusiasm: (Likely firewalled if you are not a subscriber, and I encourage you to subscribe. Jonah Goldberg has created a wonderful new resource. Both Goldberg and Williamson used to be must reads at National Review ,...
by Henry Oliner | May 13, 2023 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch (subscription highly recommended) The Old Deal: It’s also deeply and richly ironic that the new pro-life New Dealers are constantly parroting left-wing radical talking points about “empire” and the “military industrial complex”...
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...
