by Henry Oliner | May 29, 2022 | Guns
The Uvalde shooting of young school children is heart wrenching and tragic. We are left with despair and outrage, and while these are normal reactions they are a poor basis for public policy and effective solutions. The George Floyd murder soon after the Arbury...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 10, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism, Uncategorized
from Bari Weiss at City Journal, The Miseducation of America’s Elite: Woe betide the working-class kid who arrives in college and uses Latino instead of “Latinx,” or who stumbles conjugating verbs because a classmate prefers to use the pronouns they/them....
by Henry Oliner | Jan 11, 2020 | Democrats, Economics
One of the most profound quotes of Milton Friedman (a competitive arena) is “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” A corollary in today’s Wall Street Journal...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 4, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
from The City Journal, Trump and the American Divide by Victor Davis Hanson: Indeed, one irony of the 2016 election is that identity politics became a lethal boomerang for progressives. After years of seeing America reduced to a binary universe, with culpable white...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 3, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
from The City Journal, Trump and the American Divide by Victor Davis Hanson: The urban party has been getting beat up a lot, even before Trump’s surprising victory. Not only have the Democrats surrendered Congress; they now control just 13 state legislatures and 15...