by Henry Oliner | Jun 29, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
From Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Uses and Abuses of Democracy: Democracy, meaning “rule by the people,” is a word that entered English in the late 16th century to describe a contrast with the other main forms of government in the Western...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 9, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics
From Kevin Williamson at National Review, A Marxist Homecoming: One of the political difficulties of conservatism — and here I mean American conservatism, not the imported kind — is that by its nature it does not offer much in the way of novelty, excitement, or even...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 16, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Modern Conservatism is based on two premises. The first is that man’s nature is both permanent and flawed. Man is capable of great accomplishments, altruism, creativity, intelligence and beauty. He is also capable of violence, tribalism, greed, lust, and most of all,...
by Henry Oliner | May 16, 2018 | Politics
Jonah Goldberg newest book, Suicide of the West will be released next week. This piece in National Review of the same name is a thesis of his book: The American Founding’s glory is that those English colonists took their cousins’ tradition, purified it into a...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 16, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
Jonah Goldberg newest book, Suicide of the West will be released next week. This piece in National Review of the same name is a thesis of his book: Yet today’s political culture increasingly rejects persuasion, recognized as far back as Aristotle as the essence of...
