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- Defending Democracy with Drew Pavlou: Quillette Cetera Episode 34 April 27, 2024The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.Zoe Booth
- The Great Divide April 27, 2024As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.Aaron Sarin
- Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge April 25, 2024Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.Ronald Radosh
- Defending Democracy with Drew Pavlou: Quillette Cetera Episode 34 April 27, 2024
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- A Renaissance Couple April 26, 2024On a podcast with Simone Sepe and Saura Masconale, law-and-economics scholars.
- Tale of the Tip, Etc. April 26, 2024Reader mail on the anxiety of tipping and more.
- Hotbeds, &c. April 26, 2024On student activism; the Republican Party; democratic Portugal; shoulders of giants; and more.
- A Renaissance Couple April 26, 2024
Tag Archives: politics
Battleground
The phrase battleground state has taken on a whole new meaning. As reports from various urban battlefields come in, the picture of what is happening is becoming clear. Let’s summarize. (1) In a number of American cities protests turn into … Continue reading
The Ongoing Cultural Disaster
Q: What accounts for the grotesque state of American politics? A: The grotesque state of American culture. Politics is, and always has been, downstream from culture. Sure, politics and policy can influence culture, but that influence is largely ephemeral. … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, education, policy, politics, public sector unions, School Choice, schools, teachers unions
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Minneapolis–Progressive Paradise
Minneapolis has long been one of, if not the, most progressive city in America. It also is the city where George Floyd was killed in police custody. And it is home to one of the widest income gaps between white … Continue reading
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Tagged John Stossel, Minneapolis, policy, politics, Progressive, Progressive Failure, racism
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The Other Hitchens–Peter, not Christopher
Before his untimely passing Christopher Hitchens developed quite a following. Hitchens, a one-time Trotskyite who remained a man of the left until his passing, was a brilliant writer and polemicist who pulled no punches. He was a student and admirer … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, authoritarianism, Cancel Culture, dissent, Free Speech, Peter Hitchens, Philosophy, political correctness, politics
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The Great Awokening
America has had several waves of Awakening in its history, characterized by intense religious enthusiasm and social activism. These waves stemmed from American Protestantism, often accompanied by a profound sense of conviction and redemption. They tended to be evangelistic, with … Continue reading
Defunding the Police
People misunderstand what “activists” mean by “defund the police”. It doesn’t mean the abolition of policing. It does mean moving the jurisdiction of policing to another larger political entity—for instance moving the jurisdiction (and management responsibility) from the city to … Continue reading
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Tagged defund, failure, Minneapolis, police, policy, politics, Progressives
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics: A Discussion with Dr. Thomas Sowell
One of the problems we face in the public square is that “argument” consists largely of assertions without regard to facts, evidence, or logic. It is commonly assumed, for instance, that differences in outcomes result from unequal treatment, and that … Continue reading
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Tagged discrimination, Great Society, Hoover Institution, Peter Robinson, policy, politics, poverty, Thomas Sowell, wealth
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Don’t Know Much about History…
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” Jean-Jacque Rousseau “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” Edmund Burke. There is a great philosophical divide between classical liberalism and utopian socialism. It is this divide … Continue reading
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Tagged classical liberalism, David Starkey, Philosophy, politics, utopian socialism, woke culture
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The Week Trump Lost the Election
When the history books of the 2020 election are written they will most likely say that this was the week that Donald J Trump lost his bid for re-election. Not because of the economy; not because of the killing of … Continue reading