How Neoliberals Should Respond To Progressives
A 1795 view of political debates that could pass for today! Wikimedia Commons / Issac Cruikshank (1756-1811) This essay is a cri de coeur from yours truly about what I see … Read More
Category: Cultural Issues
Cultural issues are concerned with our relations and duties to each other. They include questions on ethics, morality, and mores.
Why U.S. Populism Flummoxes Progressives
Two faces of American populism Left: Sen. Bernie Sanders(I-VT) during campaign event in Phoenix, Az. Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Right: Donald Trump during 2016 presidential campaign event. Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore American … Read More
The Progressive Overton Window
Hitler and Hermann Göring saluting at a 1928 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. This is the current progressive view of present day Republicans and “Conservatives”. Source: National Archives Collection of … Read More
The Unraveling of America
Antifa combatants fighting with Trump supporters at Berkeley, California on August 27, 2017. Youtube screenshot / The Red Elephants The United States of America is unraveling as a society, in … Read More
Problems For The Sovereign American People
An 1846 painting by George Caleb Bingham showing a collection of voters before a polling place. A polling judge is administering an oath to a voter. Wikimedia Commons / George … Read More
Major Problems for the Democratic Party
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), together with Democratic Senate and House leaders, announcing their “Better Deal” at Berryville, VA on July 24, 2017. Screenshot from Newsy coverage. Having taken a quick … Read More
Another Great Progressive Disaster: California
Cumulative net migration to and from California to other states from 2004 to 2013. The Sacramento Bee An even greater disaster for American progressivism than the state of Illinois is … Read More
The Ideological Balkanization of the United States
The red state – blue state division of the United States as revealed by the presidential results of the past four presidential elections. Wikimedia Commons / Angr This week The … Read More
How Probable Is A Second American Civil War?
Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O’Sullivan Wikimedia Commons / T. H. O’Sullivan Essays speculating on the imminent beginning … Read More
The Nation States Refuse To Dissolve!
Painting of “The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster”. This is one of the treaties leading to the Peace of Westphalia, in which the concept of the modern nation state … Read More
Information Sources For Our Hive Mind
The classic, arduous. time-consuming, and expensive way to access information! A photo of a part of my library A few days ago, I asked the question “How Can So Many See … Read More
How Can So Many See Such Different Realities?
Everyone holds different pieces of the puzzle! © CanStock Photo I am endlessly fascinated by how we all ostensibly live in the same universe, yet we all see such different … Read More
Does the Populist Revolt of the West Against Its Elites Continue?
The major French presidential candidates for 2017. From Left to Right: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Communist (Wikimedia Commons / MathieuMD), Emmanuel Macron, Center-Left En Marche! movement (Wikimedia Commons / Ecole polytechnique Université Paris), François … Read More
The Human Development Index and Economic Freedom
Wikimedia Commons / User Happenstance Recently, I learned about a figure of merit for countries being promoted by the United Nations that blends economic data with statistics related to the … Read More
Lessons From The Developing World
An Indian plowman in West Bengal working in India’s largest industry: Agriculture Wikimedia Commons / ILRI In my last two posts, I have taken looks at the history of leftist … Read More
More Historical Lessons From Europe
GDP per capita in Europe in 2014. According to the World Bank, the U.S. GDP per capita in the same year was $54,540. Wikimedia Commons In this post, I will continue my … Read More
Historical Lessons on Economics and Politics
Revolutionary Images: Lessons to be avoided like the plague! Left: A barricade erected by revolutionaries in Moscow, 1905. Wikimedia Commons / Imperial War Museum Right: People’s Liberation Army entering Beijing, … Read More
Arguments Between the American Left and Right
Considerations (c) Can Stock Photo / radiantskies Today we are probably experiencing some of the most important clashes of ideas since the Age of Enlightenment. If … Read More
The Ideological Nature of Authoritarian Government
Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler: One dictator of the Left and one of the Right? Photo Credit Stalin: Wikimedia Commons / Workers Library Publishers (1930) Photo Credit Hitler: Wikimedia Commons … Read More
The Growing American Ideological Conflict
Middlebury College demonstration against Charles Murray, illustrating the strained relations between the American Left and the American Right Screenshot of Fox News Channel report In my last post, Concerning Ethics, Economics, … Read More
Concerning Ethics, Economics, and Social Reality
Come now, and let us reason together … Isaiah 1:18 (c) Can Stock Photo / photography33 Following my post Will Automation Require Progressive Unemployment Solutions?, a reader called Cai left a comment … Read More
War Between the Progressives and Neoliberals
May the better ideology win! (c) Can Stock Photo / jgroup This is the fourth and final essay in a series in which I give neoliberal answers to progressive counterarguments … Read More
Will Automation Require Progressive Unemployment Solutions?
Automated pharmacology production Wikimedia Commons / FLAGRANGE This is the third essay in a series in which I answer progressive criticisms of neoliberalism (often mistakenly called conservatism). The author of … Read More
A Progressive Provides Counterarguments!
Let the Games begin! (c) Can Stock Photo / Mark2121 Over the last couple of years, I have been very hard on progressives on this website. It is no surprise … Read More
Progressives Become McCarthyites
Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), a name that will live in infamy. This is the man progressives are currently emulating. Wikimedia Commons / Library of Congress (United Press) Almost 70 years … Read More
Why Would Anyone Be A Progressive?
Protest march against the election of Donald Trump in Saint Paul, Minnesota on November 9, 2016 Wikimedia Commons / Fibonacci Blue On many occasions I have mused about why anyone … Read More
More Conversations Needed!
What we need to avoid! Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress I have been traveling lately, which explains the dearth of new posts on this website recently. Right now, I … Read More
How Should the U.S. React to Foreign Challenges?
Aspects of U.S. Foreign Relations Top (Left to Right): U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons / Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock Container ship from … Read More
The Fraud of Multiculturalism
The Monument to Multiculturalism by Francesco Peril in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Four identical sculptures are locate in Buffalo City, South Africa; Changchun, China; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Sydney, Australia Wikimedia Commons … Read More