by Henry Oliner | Aug 9, 2023 | Economics, Uncategorized
From Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Coolidge’s Inauguration: Why He’s the Model President; Upon Harding’s death in San Francisco on the evening of August 2, 1923, the Harding–Coolidge administration gave way to that of Coolidge alone. He purified a Cabinet that...
by Henry Oliner | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the Wall Street Journal from Phil Gramm and Amity Shlaes.The ‘Gilded Age’ Myth, Then and Now: Excerpt: Between 1870 and 1900, America’s inflation-adjusted gross national product expanded by an unprecedented 233%. Though the population nearly doubled, real per...
by Henry Oliner | May 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Kevin Williamson has moved from National Review to The Dispatch. It is well worth subscribing. from Three Ways of Looking at the Debt Ceiling: If you put me in a philosophy class, I am a pretty radical libertarian, but if you ask me how I want the government of these...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kevin Williamson at National Review, Autocracy’s Fatal Flaws: excerpt: The old truths remain unchanged: The free world isn’t free because it is rich — it is rich because it is free. Freedom is not only a moral good but also a practical one: Because we have a...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kevin Williamson writes A Problem Like Putin in National Review. (paywalled – but Kevin alone is reason to subscribe) Williamson refers to the chapter in Road to Serfdom, “Why the Worst Get on Top.” I found this same chapter the most striking of the...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
from the introduction to Woke Racism by John McWhorter I write this viscerally driven by the fact that the ideology in question is one under which white people calling themselves our saviors make black people look like the dumbest, weakest, most self-indulgent human...
