by Henry Oliner | Jan 7, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
A 15 minute speech from Tucker Carlson on his show has attracted a lot of attention from conservatives. Like his recent book many of the arguments he is making from the right would have come from the left a few years ago. These two considerations of Tucker’s speech...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
from The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class by Fred Siegel Over decades, the liberal experts directed the dispersal of trillions of taxpayer dollars to alleviate poverty and improve education—it was the price, they said, that we...
by Henry Oliner | May 25, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
From the Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2018, Charles Kesler writes, Thinking About Trump: When the original American populists organized the People’s Party in time for the 1892 election, their rallying cry was the people versus “the interests,” meaning the...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 16, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
Jonah Goldberg newest book, Suicide of the West will be released next week. This piece in National Review of the same name is a thesis of his book: But the Founders’ vision assumed many preconditions, the two most important of which were the people’s virtue and the...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 12, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
by Henry Oliner The rise of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump has brought renewed interest in populism and publications to explain it. Populism is associated with bigotry and ignorance in its past forms and may carry some of the baggage today, not because those are...
