by Henry Oliner | Jan 14, 2022 | Politics
It has become an axiom for me that one of the most unforgivable sins in politics is contempt. Voters will forgive mistakes and honest differences but will not quickly forgive contempt. Biden’s speech in Atlanta was dripping with contempt for half of America and...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 6, 2021 | Politics
From Ben Sasse at the Wall Street Journal, Americans Deserve Better Than Clickbait Crack: Our politics has become so poisonous that members of Congress now see personal benefit in posturing or actually attempting to overturn a presidential election, thereby...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 22, 2018 | Democrats, Politics
The Blue Wave is barely a ripple. The visceral reaction to Nancy Pelosi was a big fact in their loss of the House in 2010. Only two years before all the media relegated the Republicans to the dustbin of history. Nancy Pelosi remains as viscerally objectionable today...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 27, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
The Challenge of Our Disruptive Era by Ben Sasse at National Review Industrialization brought a massive disruption. At the end of the Civil War, 86% of Americans still worked on the farm. By the end of World War II, 80 years later, 60% of Americans lived in cities....
by Henry Oliner | Apr 25, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
The Challenge of Our Disruptive Era by Ben Sasse at National Review I am a historian, and that usually means I’m a killjoy. When people say we’re at a unique moment in history, the historian’s job is to put things in perspective by pointing out that there is more...
