by Henry Oliner | Oct 14, 2023 | Anti Semitism, Israel
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...
by Henry Oliner | May 2, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
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...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 13, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
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...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 11, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
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...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 26, 2019 | Economics
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...
