by Henry Oliner | Oct 11, 2020 | History
from Bret Stephens at The New York Times, The 1619 Chronicles: excerpts But ambition can be double-edged. Journalists are, most often, in the business of writing the first rough draft of history, not trying to have the last word on it. We are best when we try to tell...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
From today’s Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley addresses the 1619 Project in A Bid To Review the New York Times’s Bad History. Many of the top historians on America founding find the 1619 Project riddled with gross inaccuracies and ignores the reality that...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 1, 2019 | History, Politics, Progressivism
From Kevin Williamson, History is Short in National Review: There is no marriage as stable and enduring as that of ignorance and certitude. Years ago, I knew some crunchy progressives of the particularly nasty kind they cultivate in the few remaining blueblood...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 18, 2019 | Politics
I never liked the ‘love it or leave it’ response to the Vietnam era protesters. It was a resignation of thought and debate to raw tribalism. Accusations of racism are similarly used; if every problem can be traced to racism, and if every person who disagrees with open...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 4, 2018 | Anti Semitism, Politics
from Jonah Goldberg at National Review, Why Racism Begets More Racism You can come up with as many polysyllabic explanations as you like for why it’s okay for you to mock, demonize, or ridicule white people. You can prattle on to your Ph.D. adviser’s content about how...
