by Henry Oliner | Dec 17, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
from a book review in the WSJ – Corrupting the Body Politic: The 2016 presidential election presented the mass of American voters with a conundrum: The best argument for voting for Donald Trump was Hillary Clinton, and the best argument for voting for Hillary...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 17, 2017 | Economics
From Thomas Donlan At Barron’s, Trump’s CEOs: In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time (I like the title in the print edition better, There’s No Profit in Politics) Business executives as a group rarely show the kind of sophistication that the nation needs in...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 17, 2017 | Politics
from The Worst Perversion, by Kevin Williamson at National Review: A liberal society with decent government requires that the pursuit of political power be insulated from the exercise of political power. That is why we have a Hatch Act and why the various dreams of...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 1, 2016 | Politics, Progressivism
From The Atlantic, How American Politics Went Insane by Jonathan Rauch Using polls and focus groups, Hibbing and Theiss-Morse found that between 25 and 40 percent of Americans (depending on how one measures) have a severely distorted view of how government and...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 15, 2016 | Ethics, Politics
William McGurn makes a great and scary point, more worrisome than the ethical abuses and lies that surround the Clintons- from the Wall Street Journal, Even Worse Than Clinton’s Emails It’s a disturbing pattern, and unfortunately it’s not limited to State. There have...
