by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 8, 2017 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
A recent Washington Post headline blared “The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country’s wealth than at any time in the past 50 years.” We are, I presume, supposed to assume this is a problem. Mention anything relating to the wealthy to the denizens...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 7, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Donald Trump, yesterday, fulfilled a campaign promise by formally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and announcing the beginning of the process to move America’s embassy there. The hysterics began when it was first rumored he would do so, and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 6, 2017 | Politics
EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is a follow-up to October’s Oh, Catalonia! Let’s look at questions of state legitimacy as a series of Matryoshka dolls, working down to the level of Catalan desires for independence. The outside doll: the function of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 1, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Nineteen years ago, a Russian professor named Igor Panarin predicted the disintegrtion of the United States “within a few years,” perhaps by 2010. He expected the nation to fracture into six parts. Obviously, his prediction didn’t come true, but the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 29, 2017 | Economics, Politics
As the Senate struggles to assemble a tax reform bill good enough to garner 50 votes, one palliative (or buy-off) that speaks volumes is a reported provision that will work as a tax increase “trigger” should future revenues fall short. This sop stinks for...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 13, 2017 | Culture, Politics
New York City has finally repealed its 91 year old, Jazz Age Cabaret law. The fight over the 23 skidoo goes on, vodeodo‘s specter infiltrates unchecked across the “isle of Manhatto” in its subtle wiles, but the Charleston is now free to come up from...
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