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: But the Founders’ vision assumed many preconditions, the two most important of which were the people’s virtue and the...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 9, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism, Uncategorized
Kevin Williamson at National Review criticizes the Republicans for ignoring the coastal blue states in From Sea to Shining Sea The modern conservative movement was not a product of the Old South or the Midwest but an intellectual phenomenon that percolated up in...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 6, 2017 | Culture, Democrats
How the Democrats Lost the White Working Class- Book review of White Working Class by Joan Williams- reviewed by Joe Queenan in Barron’s: “The working class…has been asked to swallow a lot of economic pain, while elites have focused on noneconomic issues,”...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 4, 2017 | Politics
From Daniel Greenfield at The Sultan Knish, The Elites are Revolting If you make tangible goods or have a mortgage, you are more likely to want borders and a nation. If on the other hand you deal largely in intangibles, in information, in strings of numbers, in data...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 23, 2017 | Politics
from The City Journal, Trump and the American Divide by Victor Davis Hanson: Yet if muscular work has seen a decline in its relative monetary worth, it has not necessarily lost its importance. After all, the elite in Washington and Menlo Park appreciate the fresh...
