by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 3, 2019 | Culture, Politics
It’s right there in the opening credits. The mechanisms of power, the institutions, the gears, are everything. By the time Game of Thrones (GoT) wound down, it was quite clear that the “wheel,” which Daenerys Targaryen devoted her life to breaking,...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 24, 2019 | Economics, Politics
We are well into the second year of Trump’s trade war, which has produced a volatile but flat stock market (The S&P 500 index sits, at this moment at 2856, almost precisely its 2873 value of January 28, 2018, just before this trade war began), and which...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 25, 2019 | Guns, Politics
Our progressive politicians love to assert that they, and they alone, care about the poor and working classes. They bray about income and wealth inequality, and offer up plan after plan to “restore justice” in society by taking from the rich. They offer...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 16, 2019 | Culture, Education, Politics
The interruption of a stand-up comic’s performance by event organizers at Columbia University late last year served, obviously, as a reminder that college campuses remain places of intolerance and hostility to anything resembling diversity of thought. Nimesh...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 12, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
America’s history can be viewed as a long and continuing stream of cultural shifts. Her inception itself was a radical departure from the widely-established forms of governance the colonists knew and lived under, towards one that was more egalitarian,...
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