From Sultan Knish, The Obama-Media War. Excerpts: The media these days doesn’t have much. Its numbers are bad in every medium from the tube to the inky pages of newsprint to the crackling AM radio waves. It isn’t very profitable.
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Daniel Greenfield writes Where is Our Panama Canal in his excellent blog Sultan Knish. 2/12/13. Excerpts: China can build things, for better or worse, because it has the manufacturing capacity to get things done. America no longer has manufacturing capacity,
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Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: Savages can kill each other, but they can’t communicate with each other. You can’t prove anything to a savage, because a savage does not believe in objective standards of
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Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog Sultan Knish, Inequality for All, 3/31/13. Excerpts: Bigotry is too prized a resource to just watch it drain away in some communal pool of brotherhood and sisterhood. The only thing to do is
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From The Road to Oligarchy by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish Excerpts: In most countries, starting a business does not begin with a great idea. It begins with connections. Knowing the right people is still important, but in most places it’s the most
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Daniel Greenfield wrote Capitalism: A Hate Story in his blog, The Sultan Knish, 2/27/13. Excerpt: Ever since the birth of democracy and even before it, politics has come down to who claims to care the most for the people. There was hardly a
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I have posted several article seeking better information about the myths commonly accepted about the gaps in income and wealth distributions. Some of this analysis in seen here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Daniel Greenfield in his excellent
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From Daniel Greenfield in the Sultan Knish, The Dreaded Drone, 3/11/13 Excerpt: We aren’t dealing with fascism, we’re dealing with bureaucratic collectivism. Rather than a militarized society, what we have is a socialized society. The people who run it don’t
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Daniel Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish Making the World A Better Place, 3/10/13. Excerpts: The idea that making the world a better place begins with dedication to humanitarian activity is a dangerous fallacy. There are extraordinary people who can genuinely
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Getting Rich by Fighting for the Poor from the blog of Daniel Greenfield – Sultan Knish, 3//7/13 Excerpt: Chavez died with an estimated net worth of 2 billion dollars making him the 4th richest man in Venezuela and the 49th
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From The Road to Oligarchy by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish Excerpts: There is also very little social mobility. Human ingenuity can allow people to become wealthy under nearly any set of circumstances, but it’s a good deal harder to do it under an
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Daniel Greenfield writes Terrorism Without End in Frontpagemag.com , 2/25/13: Excerpt: Terrorism can never be defeated by fighting terrorists. Combine massive wealth in some parts of the Middle East with staggering poverty in other parts and the supply of
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Daniel Greenfield wrote Capitalism: A Hate Story in his blog, The Sultan Knish, 2/27/13. Excerpt: The traditional image of the anti-capitalist as a ragamuffin who dies of consumption in his garret has always been at odds with the real image
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Daniel Greenfield writes The Guns of Obamerica in his blog The Sultan Knish, 1/20/2013. Excerpts: 67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate
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Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: Every issue becomes tribal, sometimes literally in the accusations of racism and representation, but mostly in the sense that every position depends on affiliation. Every idea becomes a
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Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: The proliferation of bad faith experts, experts for hire and amateur experts means that there is more bad science than there is good science, more wrong ideas than
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Daniel Greenfield writes The Guns of Obamerica in his blog The Sultan Knish, 1/20/2013. Excerpts: Reformers in the twenties blamed the plight of the slums on the availability of liquor. They rammed through Prohibition for the entire country to fix the cities. The
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Daniel Greenfield writes And This is Revolution in his excellent blog, Sultan Knish, 1/14/13. Excerpt: It’s the aspiring middle class that begins revolutions, but when they turn bloody enough, then they usually aren’t the ones who inherit them. An ascending
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Stanley Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish, The Perfect Prison excerpts: Bloomberg is a living model of the glass half-full theory of human behavior. This is after all a man who banned large sodas, and if you can’t trust people to
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Daniel Greenfield write a bit of profound analysis of Democracy in With a Pocketful of Democracy in his blog Sultan Knish Excerpt: In an amoral society, democracy is one of the few things left to us by dead white men
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