by Henry Oliner | Oct 14, 2023 | Anti Semitism, Israel
From The Marxian Roots of Campus Anti-Semitism by Barton Swaim in The Wall Street Journal, 10/13/23: That anti-Israel protests erupted on elite campuses this week—not after the accidental killing of a Palestinian demonstrator but after the systematic murder of at...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 12, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Kimball quotes the German thinker Hans Blumenberg: “If there were an imminent final goal of history, then those who believe they know it and claim to promote its attainment would be legitimized in using all the others who do not know it . . . as a mere means.” Once...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 27, 2020 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From What Does Liberalism Even Mean Anymore? So what’s in it for liberal elites who are pushing this narrative? Why are affluent white liberals so eager to believe we’re living in a white supremacy, for example? Here’s my best guess: The narrative of wokeness or...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 21, 2019 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From Daniel Hannan’s Inventing Freedom: Capitalism was supposed to destroy the middle class, leaving a tiny clique of oligarchs ruling over a vast proletariat. In fact, capitalism has enlarged the bourgeoisie wherever it has been practiced. Capitalism was...
by Henry Oliner | May 3, 2018 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
A book review: Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg In Suicide of the West Jonah Goldberg begins with Deirdre McCloskey’s recognition that the last 250 years of progress in the context of the 400,000 years of the appearance of man, or even the last 5,000 years...
