by Henry Oliner | Feb 25, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
If socialism is so great, then why is Paul Krugman so insistent that Bernie is not a socialist? What is the difference between a social democrat and a socialist? Why is Bernie so comfortable with a label that his Democratic supporters are trying to avoid? For those...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 12, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
From The National Review, Kevin Williamson writes Them the People: The destructive nature of socialism comes not from its tendency to trample on democracy (though socialism often does trample on democracy) but from its total disregard for rights — rights that are, in...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 9, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
The better political writers bring some perspective and depth to the current political controversies. National Review hosts several such writers and Kevin Williamson is my favorite. It is hard to conceive how the socialist wing of the Democratic party has gotten so...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 17, 2020 | Economics
Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1974 but is much better known for his writings of classical liberalism, particularly the dangers and fallacies of a centrally planned economy. His works are usually demonized by the left but often misunderstood and...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 9, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
from Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph, 30 years after the Berlin Wall’s fall, the dangerous ‘cuddly socialism’ myth has returned: By 1989, no one could make that case. In every country where it had been tried, socialism had led to poverty and oppression. Political...
