by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 8, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
When it comes to cautionary dystopian tales, most of us know the biggies. Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm (the latter proffering up this blog’s name) are the gold standard. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is another classic. More contemporary writers...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Ever read something so stupid, you press the palms of your hands to your face in frustration? Fortunately, the Internet provides. Because I feel that frustration on a near-constant basis, I’ve collected a stash of face-palm memes, and offer them as appropriate...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 2, 2020 | Economics, Election, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Were I tasked with offering one lesson about politics, whether it be to a group of wide-eyed high school sophomores, an over-educated class of grad students, or a conglomerated mass of voters from all over the political spectrum, it would be this: It’s always...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 1, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
That incentives matter is a core kernel of debate between libertarians and Lefties (ok, and everyone else). They matter in police reform, and they explain why politicians have an incentive to maintain the status quo on the chronic problems they are elected to address....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 28, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
I caught a chunklet of an Internet conversation the other day, wherein a couple obviously left-leaning (and intersectional) commenters offered a perfunctory dismissal of Thomas Sowell (and Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson, because Black Non-Liberals are all the same,...
by BALAZS BENKO | Jun 23, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution. The process and the way it manifests About a month ago, I was requested to put together a longer piece on the process I can summarize by term “permanent progressivist revolution”. I was...
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