by Henry Oliner | Aug 10, 2023 | Economics
Presidents get too much credit and blame for an economy as if it turns on a dime the moment they are elected. The right want to credit Trump for the sharp rise since he was elected, but attributes no credit to Obama for the long rise during his tenure. In both cases...
by Henry Oliner | May 31, 2022 | Guns
At its best virtue signalling only wastes time, prioritizing guilt reduction over crime reduction. At its worst it squanders limited resources that could have been used to enact real solutions. Few have applied reason and evidence to the gun controversy better than...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 19, 2022 | Media
A fascinating polling piece at YouGov.com illuminated how much we overestimate the size of minority groups whether it is Blacks, Jews, lesbians, transgenders or millionaires. How can it be that in a nation drowning in sources and distribution of information we can be...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 6, 2022 | Media
From Kevin Williams in National Review, Sarah Palin vs The New York Times: Our friends in the media who bemoan the rise of Donald Trump and Trump-style politics — which is to say, the politics of lies — have some penance of their own to do, because it was not...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 10, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Kevin Williams writes in National Review, On the Dangers of Democracy: Increasingly, Left and Right converge in the worst of their vicious democratic passions, holding that Americans may trade only at the sufferance of the state, speak only at the sufferance of the...
