by Henry Oliner | Feb 5, 2022 | Media, Politics, Progressivism
From Glenn Harlan Reynolds at New York Post, Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it: A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 29, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
Elizabeth Warren has challenged her Democratic colleagues not to be timid, to put forth big ideas. She seems to have a new big idea about every week; there is no problem facing us that she does not have a plan to resolve. The more dysfunctional our political system...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 20, 2017 | Education, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
From Glenn Harlan Reynolds in The USA Today, Social media threat: People learned to survive disease, we can handle Twitter: Likewise, in recent years we’ve gone from an era when ideas spread comparatively slowly, to one in which social media in particular allow them...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 4, 2017 | Global Warming
by Henry Oliner Law professor and blogger Glenn Harland Reynolds posits an axiom of politics “that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.” I would suggest a corollary that the less...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 9, 2017 | Democrats, Law, Progressivism
One of the problems with the ‘ends justify the means’ mentality is determining whose ends you are pursuing. The idea of a living constitution sounds fine to the left as long as they are pursuing the goals the left values, but when the government shifts you...