by Henry Oliner | Jul 23, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From Kevin Williamson’s book The Smallest Minority released today: If we are willing to give a hypothetical evil a moral weight equal to that of an actual evil, then there is no limiting principle at all that is possible, because it is easy to construct an...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 10, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
My initial outrage over the anti-Semitism expressed by Ilhan Omar quickly dissolved not into acceptance but into expectation. The Democrats’ weasel worded statement refusing to hold her personally accountable and diluting the act with every other hatred is not...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
In Atlantic Yascha Mounk writes Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture If you look at what Americans have to say on issues such as immigration, the extent of white privilege, and the prevalence of sexual harassment, the authors argue, seven distinct clusters emerge:...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 3, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
by Henry Oliner Did Donald Trump win the election, or did Hillary Clinton lose it? It may seem irrelevant, but it does have bearing on the midterms. Hillary’s likability is used as a cloak to obscure severe character flaws and a history that questions her...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 20, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
Mark Lilla is a committed Democrat who admonishes his party for the its descent into Identity Politics in The Once and Future Liberal- After Identity Politics What replaces argument, then, is taboo. At times our more privileged campuses can seem stuck in the world...
