by Henry Oliner | Aug 15, 2022 | Politics, Progressivism
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, Authoritarianism is not limited to the right wing. Fascism and socialism sprang from the same intellectual waters of historicism and the revolutionary theology of the French Revolution. Both believe that central planning is superior...
by Henry Oliner | May 23, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
from Jonah Goldberg’s Dispatch, Bugged Out. A very clever piece that demonstrates the limits of reason. I subscribe to his substack and recommend it. I’ve written countless times about the differences between left and right. Thomas Sowell describes it as the...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Here are the top five of 2020 for me. I judge them by how much they either influenced or illuminated my thinking, not necessarily the best written though I find original thinking and clarity in writing often go together. I focus most of my reading on American...
by Henry Oliner | May 11, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
The danger for a Western democracy like the United States is not that we will become a Soviet style tyranny; we will not. Instead the danger is that we will lose faith in the civic institutions of democratic liberty, and prefer in their stead the easy answers of the...
by Henry Oliner | May 3, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
The future, that undiscovered land just past the great horizon, is the constant focus of man’s energies, and its mutability is the source of human freedom. Nearly every human act is based upon the proposition that what we do will shape the future. There can be no...
