by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 12, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Opinion, Politics
“Great” is the it-word of our day. The pandemic has motivated some to push for a Great Reset, wherein capitalism is set aside in favor of some presumably better way of economic interaction (i.e. the Best-and-Brightest will run our lives for us). That this...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 24, 2021 | Economics, Environment, Politics
Back in my college days, a good friend and I would theorize endlessly about how the world would change when “cheap fusion” finally gets figured out. Of course, as I sit here, four decades later, cheap fusion is still “just a couple decades...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 19, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
If you dabble in political sandboxes, you are likely familiar with the term “intelligentsia.” It’s been around a couple centuries, if Wikipedia is to be trusted for that datum, and it speaks to both a category of people and to disdain for them. Or,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 11, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket. Thus wrote* social philosopher Eric Hoffer in 1967. Its truth could not be more timely, no matter that it was written half a century ago. Regular readers know...
by Karl Wright | Jun 8, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Election, Opinion, Politics
The Ascendancy of China in American Culture Few people would disagree that the last two years have changed American society more than any entire generation in our country’s history. In my opinion, that includes the decades of the Great Depression and World War...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 26, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Our current cultural clash, the conflict between the progressives (see: moving forward) who see our society as so fractured it has to be torn down en-toto (in favor of… wait for it… a century-old idea that killed a hundred million people) and the...
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