by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 14, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Offering proof that there is no lesson so obvious that it cannot be ignored, today’s political and social media landscape demonstrates, time and time again, in ever more bewildering ways, that the Left hasn’t come to terms with why Trump won the Presidency...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 23, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Three years ago, I asked whether social media platforms might one day be deemed a “public good,” subject the principles of public accommodation currently applied to brick-and-mortar businesses, as well as other government mandates (e.g. those imposed on...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 14, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The aftermath of a grotesque display by the worst sorts of racists (actual ones, mind you, not the sort of soft racism that identity-politics- and social-justice-warriors accuse even the best-intentioned and best-hearted people of), and Trump’s infuriatingly...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 13, 2017 | Economics, Politics
Bellum Se Ipsum Alet – War Feeds Itself As has been a theme in these pages: when problems are solved politically, political power becomes entrenched and unadaptive; the problem then exists outside a rational feedback loop, and costs and benefit calculations are...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2017 | Culture, Education, Opinion
Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated war movie Dunkirk opened this past weekend. Highly anticipated and stellarly-reviewed, it tells one of the great stories of 20th century history: the rescue of 400,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers from a French beach...
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