by Henry Oliner | May 7, 2023 | Economics, Politics
From Kevin Williamson at The Dispatch, Five Words of Wisdom: You don’t have to love the Wall Street guys, but you should try to understand what it is they do and how that helps make the rest of us richer. If you want to build a factory, what are you going to do? Save...
by Henry Oliner | May 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Kevin Williamson has moved from National Review to The Dispatch. It is well worth subscribing. from Three Ways of Looking at the Debt Ceiling: If you put me in a philosophy class, I am a pretty radical libertarian, but if you ask me how I want the government of these...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 14, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch, Rites About Rites Let’s start with the subject of Jim Crow. Extending voting rights to blacks in the South was important, morally necessary, and just. But Jim Crow didn’t end in the South because blacks got the vote. A full 10...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 14, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch, Rites About Rites One of the central insights of both liberalism and conservatism, rightly understood, is that sometimes the people can be wrong. That’s why the Founders made it hard to change the Constitution. That’s why they...
by Henry Oliner | May 29, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at the Dispatch, Conservatism, Not Populism: In fairness to those who say “we live in a republic, not a democracy,” what they usually have in mind, I think, is that there are limits to democracy. That’s why we say we live in a “liberal democracy,”...
