by Peter Venetoklis | May 28, 2017 | Economics, Opinion, Politics
A silly little graphic popped up on my Facebook feed today. It presented a two-dimensional political chart, with authoritarian at the top, libertarian at the bottom, economic-left on the left and economic-right on the right. It then devolved this political spectrum...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 14, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Back in the day, in this case the early 1980s, radio shock jock Howard Stern was driving scolds, prudes and nannies crazy with his antics on WNBC in New York. Stern’s success and the loyalty of his listeners, as the story goes, was parsed by radio executives as...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 12, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
Words hurt, and feelings matter. Or, so goes a guiding philosophy of modern social justice. We bear witness to it, domestically, in the disinvitation of speakers at college campuses, in the establishment of safe spaces, in the rise of hate-crime and hate-speech...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 7, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
There’s an old gag I used to try on some of my more gullible friends in times past. Should gullibility ever come up, mention “did you know that the word gullible is not in the dictionary?” The goal, obviously, is to get them to look it up (and its...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 4, 2017 | Culture, Health, Opinion
The transgender “controversy,” for want of a better word, has seemed to me very much a tempest in a teapot, an issue that’s resolvable by basic free market forces and basic courtesy, and that has been used as a source of deliberately excessive...
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