by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 30, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
It has been a scant few years since leftists, liberals, progressives, and statist dreamers sang the praises of Venezuela’s socialism. The roster of famous praisers includes Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone, Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, Jeremy Corbyn, a Hillary...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 29, 2017 | Culture
Having spent a lot of time in the poor precincts of New York City I can advise with perfect confidence: the unfortunate and neglected, sick, mentally ill, drug and alcohol dependent, care nothing for what the better-off write and share on social media. None of this...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 28, 2017 | Education
Many of Trump’s cabinet appointments have elicited howls of outrage, but one that stands out from the pack is that of Betsy DeVos to Education. DeVos was beset upon all sides by the public-education-monopoly apologists, the teachers unions, the knee-jerk...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 25, 2017 | Economics, Taxation
If you’re a libertarian who’s wallowed in that political mud for a while, you know the “Muh roads!” gag. The rest of you – the normal people who may even know a fair bit about libertarianism but haven’t spent endless hours debating...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 25, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Consider two recent examples of the resistance to change that politically entrenched organizations put forth, two sides of the same coin, that go together like peanut butter and chocolate. One, which I am dubbing the Freddie Gray syndrome, is the argument that reforms...
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