by Henry Oliner | May 30, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From David Brooks at The New York Times, The Strange Failure of the Educated Elite: Once upon a time, white male Protestants ruled the roost. You got into a fancy school if your father had gone to the fancy school. You got a job at a white-shoe law firm or climbed the...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 18, 2018 | Democrats, Media, Politics
The media had lost a lot of credibility long before Trump, but he has pushed back like no other president or any elected official. His Fake News Awards highlights their greatest transgressions in the last year. While his opponents believe he is a threat to the...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 31, 2017 | Democrats, Politics, Progressivism
Bret Stephens writes in The New York Times, Why I’m Still a Never Trumper: (may hit a paywall) Bret Stephens is one of many conservative intellectuals who opposed Trump. In this article he voices approval for many of his policies, but still rejects him on style...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 7, 2017 | Media
Trump has been accused of racism and pandering to the Alt Right. However much his Charlottesville response may have failed to isolate its criticism of the white supremacists at the rally, he has little motivation to be loyal to this faction. Their voting power is...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 1, 2017 | Media, Politics
“Read the declassified report by the intelligence community that came out in early January,” said (Hillary) Clinton. “Seventeen agencies, all in agreement – which I know from my experience as a senator and secretary of state is hard to get – they concluded with ‘high...
