Marxian Anti-Semitism

From The Marxian Roots of Campus Anti-Semitism by Barton Swaim in The Wall Street Journal, 10/13/23: That anti-Israel protests erupted on elite campuses this week—not after the accidental killing of a Palestinian demonstrator but after the systematic murder of at...

Insipid Rationalism

From Barton Swaim at The Wall Street Journal, The Man They Couldn’t Cancel: The mention of environmentalism brings to mind the cultish side of modern progressivism. Is this desire to flog and destroy, as he puts it, a sign of some twisted spiritual longing? “I...

A Permanent War Footing

From today’s Wall Street Journal:  Joe Biden and the Slow Death of Liberalism by Barton Swaim. Excerpt: The point here is not to disparage liberalism. It is to point out that liberalism in America achieved the last of its great aims a half-century ago. Since...

Sacrificing Liberal Values

From today’s Wall Street Journal:  Joe Biden and the Slow Death of Liberalism by Barton Swaim. Excerpt: Opportunistic complaints about the Electoral College aside, liberals began long ago to distrust universal suffrage. They are generally happy to entrust...

A Greater Display of Democracy

from Capitalism Isn’t a ‘System’ by Barton Swaim at The Wall Street Journal: What’s odd about Mr. Giridharadas’s essay, and others like it, is that the reader is simply expected to understand how the word “capitalism” stands for everything allegedly wrong with the...