by Henry Oliner | Jan 1, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
I found it harder to have a civil objective conversation on politics in 2020. There seems to be few that are not blinded by hatred for the other side; willing to accept the bad to avoid the worst. Volumes have been written to explain this divide, but it seems to...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 1, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From Kevin Williamson at National Review, Pruning the Presidency: The Left has aggrandized the presidency because it wishes to rule the country administratively rather than through the clunky process by which lawmakers go about making laws in a thoroughly unscientific...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 12, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
from the notebooks… You do not truly understand an idea until you can articulate its flaws or its limits. This is particularly true with social, economic and political ideas, but it should apply to any idea you support. Similarly, you cannot understand any idea...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 24, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
We will always have a ruling class. Our economy and nation are just too large to manage without delegated authority. Our great experiment with democracy is about whether the people can be trusted to select their leaders wisely. The aristocracy of Europe ruled based...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 10, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
It is counterintuitive to the political neophyte that democracy leads to tyranny, but the framers of the constitution understood this clearly. They understood the positive contribution that came from the aristocracy and monarchy as well as the negative. They also...
