by Henry Oliner | Apr 28, 2016 | Foreign policy, Politics, Social, Taxes
from The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson Experts on economic competitiveness, like Michael Porter of Harvard Business School, define the term to include the ability of government to pass effective laws; the protection of physical and intellectual property rights...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 9, 2016 | Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism, Social
From Joel Kotkin at newgeography.com AMERICA’S NEW OLIGARCHS—FWD.US AND SILICON VALLEY’S SHADY 1 PERCENTERS this is an excerpt from a reader’s comment on the article above: The Valley’s failure to fulfill its promise seems to be due precisely to this: it...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 8, 2016 | Guns, Social
From Brian Doherty at Reason, You Know Less Than You Think About Guns This is an excellent analysis of the sociology of the gun problem in America, and should be read in its entirety. It is a bit long, but it is worthy with no wasted words. In the October 2015...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 9, 2015 | Politics, Social
from Making It All Up by Andrew Ferguson at The Weekly Standard Behind the people being experimented upon are the people doing the experimenting, the behavioral scientists themselves. In important ways they are remarkably monochromatic. We don’t need to belabor the...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 30, 2015 | History, Politics, Progressivism, Social
from George Will in The Washington Post, The danger of a government with unlimited power Lack of “a limiting principle” is the essence of progressivism, according to William Voegeli, contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books, in his new book...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 29, 2015 | Economics, Financial, Politics, Social, Taxes
from Kevin Williamson at National Review, We’re Not That Far from a Balanced Budget One, Americans earning $100,000 or more pay basically all of the federal income taxes, about 80 percent. That is far in excess of their portion of national income (“national...
