by Henry Oliner | Oct 6, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
I confess that when the Harvey Weinstein allegations accumulated I took pleasure in seeing the hypocrisy of the left exposed and one of their own facing the wrath of the politically correct. As the charges were multiplied and duplicated among several other national...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 22, 2017 | Media, Politics
By Henry Oliner “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill While attributed to Churchill this quote has a history before his time, but imagine how today’s social media magnifies this axiom. The New York...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 13, 2016 | Culture, Economics
From The Washington Post Ana Swanson writes Why The Industrial Revolutions didn’t happen in China The article is mostly an interview with Joel Mokyr about his new book , A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. It appears to travel on similar...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 2, 2015 | Economics, Taxes
From Robert Samuelson at The Washington Post, The coming middle-class tax increase There is a broader message here. Both parties have constructed rationales for avoiding middle-class tax increases, which would be highly unpopular. It’s not that these rationales are...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 9, 2015 | Politics
from The Washington Post, For decades, the government steered millions away from whole milk. Was that wrong? But even as a Senate committee was developing the Dietary Goals, some experts were lamenting that the case against saturated fats, though thinly supported, was...
