by Henry Oliner | Aug 15, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Authoritarianism is not limited to the right wing. Fascism and socialism sprang from the same intellectual waters of historicism and the revolutionary theology of the French Revolution. Both believe that central planning is superior...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 15, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Scientific reasoning as opposed to authoritarian faith has driven our enormous progress for the last few hundred years, but this reason has limits and its usefulness in the social realm has translated poorly. In economics our philosophical understanding of human...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 19, 2019 | Economics
The vocabulary of economics, like other specialized vocabularies, is enriched by coinages and borrowings: the Laffer curve, the affluent society, the agency problem. Contrary to a widespread impression among noneconomists, though, understanding the vocabulary of...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 6, 2018 | Economics
Deirdre McCloskey reviews Skidelsky’s Money and Government in the Wall Street Journal: Despite his gloominess and his charming faith in delicate management of the economy by the wise heads in Washington and Whitehall, Mr. Skidelsky is occasionally fair-minded....
by Henry Oliner | Oct 2, 2018 | Politics
The Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg used the metaphor of the golden goose to describe political movements. Some thought the one golden egg a day was not enough and demanded more. They abused the goose to get more eggs. The goose eventually died. The technocrat...
