by Henry Oliner | Aug 21, 2023 | Politics, Progressivism
from Kevin Williamson at The Dispatch, Curb Your Enthusiasm: (Likely firewalled if you are not a subscriber, and I encourage you to subscribe. Jonah Goldberg has created a wonderful new resource. Both Goldberg and Williamson used to be must reads at National Review ,...
by Henry Oliner | May 13, 2023 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch (subscription highly recommended) The Old Deal: It’s also deeply and richly ironic that the new pro-life New Dealers are constantly parroting left-wing radical talking points about “empire” and the “military industrial complex”...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 9, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics
From Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen interviews Walter Russell Mead Excerpt: COWEN: How would you change or improve the training that goes into America’s foreign policy elite? MEAD: Well, I would start by trying to draw people’s attention to that, over the last 40...
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 | Jan 14, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch, Rites About Rites Let’s start with the subject of Jim Crow. Extending voting rights to blacks in the South was important, morally necessary, and just. But Jim Crow didn’t end in the South because blacks got the vote. A full 10...
