by Henry Oliner | Jan 20, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From Holman Jenkins, Jr. at the Wall Street Journal, America the Unextreme: If extremists want to believe they are secretly in league with mainstream politicians, they get enough help already. Digital microtargeting was expected to worsen the temptation of politicians...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 5, 2017 | Media, Uncategorized
from Thomas Donlan at Barron’s, Ignorance is Not Bliss “Tech writer Bruce Sterling commented in 2007 that using Twitter for ‘literate communication’ is ‘about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite The Iliad.’ The journalist Clive Thompson...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 25, 2011 | Economics
Some of the major technological marvel of today’s world are not doing much to create new jobs. They’ll bring big gains but without putting too many people back to work, IT specialists of the right kind excluded. The internet is wonderful, but it’s not saving the...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 20, 2010 | Politics
I find that following and being followed by a few thousand people on Twitter gives one a certain feel of the pulse of the electorate. I realize that most of my followers are right of center, thought I aim to get beyond left and right. I have a few rules of who I...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
1. blaming economic crises on “greed” is like blaming plane crashes on gravity.- Thomas Sowell 2. “crony capitalism” is to capitalism what National Socialism (Nazism) is to socialism- hko 3. ‘Those who hammer their guns...
