by Henry Oliner | Dec 11, 2016 | Politics, Progressivism, Science
from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe, Healey’s Exxon witch-hunt: As a citizen and a politician, Healey is fully entitled to condemn fossil fuels, decry global warming, and express scorn for those who don’t agree with her and Gore. As the chief...
by Henry Oliner | May 30, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Politics
Inequality in American Life is not as easy to measure as you would think and probably even more difficult to make relevant. The common solutions from the left point more to reducing the wealthy than raising the poor, as if the results will be the same. While there is...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 7, 2016 | Economics
From Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe, The weakest economic recovery in modern times: The Great Recession formally ended in June 2009, just five months after Obama’s inauguration. Nevertheless, polls repeatedly find that large swaths of voters believe the US...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 6, 2015 | Media
from Garrett Swasey’s final sermon by Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe “The world is too much with us,” opens William Wordsworth’s famous sonnet. “Late and soon/Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” If that was true when he...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 14, 2015 | Politics, Progressivism
An important axiom of government is to imagine that the law or regulation you propose or champion is in the hand of your worst nightmare. Would you want that person to have the same power you are proposing to be used by those you currently favor. Too often our...
