by Peter Venetoklis | May 5, 2018 | Culture
William Falk, editor-in-chief of The Week, recently warned Democrats that economic populism (e.g. socialized medicine and Bernie Sanders’ government jobs program) is not the path back to power that they assume (and behave as if) it is. He argues, compellingly,...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 2, 2018 | Culture, Opinion
Those of us of a certain age are likely to recall the old schoolteacher’s threat that bad behavior would end up on our “permanent record,” either first-hand or as witnessed in pop culture. Supposedly, we could be tagged with evidence of our misdeeds...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 1, 2018 | Culture, Environment
Last week, an organization called Stand.earth (who even knew that .earth was a domain?) organized a rally dubbed “Too Dirty To Wear” at a Levi’s store in Manhattan to protest the company’s “climate pollution.” Supposedly, by...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 29, 2018 | Culture
I recently came across a tweet that accused white Americans who choose to learn Spanish of cultural appropriation. Or, more specifically, I came across the mockery of a person who tweeted thus. The premise itself is farcical. Even if you buy into the exclusionary...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 24, 2018 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Opinion, Politics
The State, in using its carceral system to support its continued carceral endeavors in order to serve the interests of the incarcerators, has created a terrible feedback loop. Since the Clinton administration, America’s carceral system has been driven by...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 16, 2018 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
In the ever-growing minefield of political correctness, where nearly every utterance can and will be parsed and critiqued by the synthetically outraged and by eternally vigilant social justice warriors, where even pronouns can get you in deep trouble, there remains...
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