by Henry Oliner | Oct 11, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
George Will on Nikki Haley’s defense of capitalism: Speaking in a manner bracingly unusual in this city, Haley minced no words: “The American system is capitalism.” Although “the Founders never used the word, they gave us capitalism in all but the name,” because...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 8, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Arthur Schlesinger wrote The Age of Roosevelt in three volumes between 1956 and 1960. The first volume, The Crisis of the Old Order, addressed the national conditions that led to the election of Franklin Roosevelt. The Coming of the New Deal focused on the first two...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 9, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From Kevin Williamson in National Review, Socialism in Action: Billions of dollars of Pemex oil goes missing every year as part of a criminal enterprise organized, if we are to believe the Mexican government, by Pemex executives, including its former head of security....
by Henry Oliner | Feb 27, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Election Thoughts 2020 02 27 The Democratic Party is in the midst of an ideological struggle between moderate progressives and socialists. In many ways they’re not far apart on an ideological spectrum; the progressives have a greater faith in market economics but are...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 26, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
I have criticized Democrats for failing to understand their 2016 loss to Donald Trump. Rather than face their own shortcomings in the eyes of their voters, they demonized them as deplorables and refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the election, blaming Russian...
