“The disastrously unsuccessful social experiment of the early 21st century has been attempting to substitute hundreds or thousands of superficial and transitory instant relationships for genuine community and family, which require time and a different kind of effort to cultivate.”
Read More“It’s not a coincidence that many of the loudest critics decrying white privilege are . . . privileged whites.”
Read More“We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.”
Read More“But what the vast majority of Americans seem to see—at least according to the research conducted for “Hidden Tribes”—is not so much genuine concern for social justice as the preening display of cultural superiority.”
Read More“And that’s why it was the moderate side of the right that stepped up to the plate and delivered the goods in the Kavanaugh fight. Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins, Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell, all of them harshly vilified in the past by the more conservative wing of the party, found themselves uttering words that those who had previously reviled them were now cheering.”
Read More“The greatest factor in hastening the end of American-style democracy over the past 125 years (at least) has been increasing government centralization and administrative rule.”
Read MoreFrom the first progressive era the left has preached democracy but delivered a credentialed new aristocracy with increasing contempt for the voters who do not acquiesce. It is called democracy when the mass abides the elite, populism when they do not.
Read MoreSince originalism is so objectionable to progressives, who’s up for a living constitutionalist justice who shares the President’s moral and political beliefs? — Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) June 28, 2018
Read MoreJoe Finkelstein and Rebel Yid Henry Oliner discuss the Annual Berkshire Hathaway Meeting and the wisdom of the world’s wisest capitalist gurus.
Read More“Modernity often assumes that we’ve conquered human nature as much as we’ve conquered the natural world. The truth is we’ve done neither. We simply restrain each from generation to generation. If you’ve ever owned a boat, car, or house, you know that nature needs only time and opportunity to reclaim everything. Rust doesn’t sleep. Termites respect a grandfather clock no more than an outhouse. “
Read More“We live in an age when we all too often want our local problems, even our personal problems, to be national problems because we think that the government in Washington is there to solve anything called a “national problem.”
Read MoreTrump remains vulnerable and the Democrats are too self absorbed and ill tempered to be able to take advantage of it. Resistance is not enough, and it is becoming progressively weaker.
Read MoreProgress is inevitable, pushed by man’s desire to better his condition. We can screw it up in countless and incredibly severe ways, but we progress anyway. Look how much better off we are today from 1900 despite two world wars and the Great Depression, and thousands of violent conflicts and collapses.
Read MoreIt is a money decision. Trump money-balled the electoral college and targeted just enough to win. It is a poor investment to invest in races that are so overwhelmingly blue. The result in the current scenario us that the most populous centers do not get a seat at the table and have little leverage to gain any. Thus the critical loss of the state tax deduction that hurts them disproportionately. (now they have to argue that their wealthy taxpayers deserve a break.)
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