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
The Proposed Border Adjustment Tax
Incoming and outgoing international trade in San Francisco Bay Wikimedia Commons / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Arguments over U.S. tax policies are moving toward a controversial tax proposal around … Read More
Modern Day Mercantilism
An imaginary European seaport painted by Claude Lorrain around 1639, at the height of mercantilism Wikimedia Commons / Musée du Louvre / Mbzt In the year 1776, the same year in which 13 … Read More
The Divisive Issue of Foreign Trade
Container shipping has revolutionized foreign trade by greatly reducing costs of transportation by ship, rail, and truck. Wikimedia Commons / Hafiz343 I have written several times about why foreign trade … Read More
U.S. Economy and Stock Markets, February 2017
Real U.S. Per capita GDP in chained 2009 dollars (blue curve) and its percent change year over year (maroon curve). The thick green line is a linear fit of the … Read More
Federal Expenditure and Revenue Realities
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Brady’s controversial plan for “border adjustment” taxes are being fiercely opposed. Wikimedia Commons / Office of Congressman Kevin … 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 U.S. Interactions With Other Nations
United Nations Headquarters in New York City Wikimedia Commons / Neptuul Very little divides American citizens more than questions about how the U.S. should interact with other nations. This has always … 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
The Basic Values Needed for Our Politics
Five of the most important Western ethical thinkers. From top, left to right; bottom, left to right: Socrates (Wikimedia Commons / Eric Gaba (Sting)); Aristotle (Wikimedia Commons / Eric Gaba … Read More
Values, Reality, and Politics
The Death of Socrates, by Jaques-Louis David (1787) Wikimedia Commons / Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931 Let it be stipulated the two major American political philosophies, more or less … Read More
The Trump Era Begins
President Donald J. Trump delivering his inaugural address, January 20, 2017 Screenshot of ABC News broadcast Uncompromising. That was the major tone of Donald Trump’s inaugural address on the west … Read More
Do American Progressives Have Historical Amnesia?
The signing of the U.S. Constitution, one of the latest fruits of the Age of Enlightenment Current Location: East Stairway, House of Representatives Wing, U.S. Capitol Wikimedia Commons / Howard Chandler … Read More
U.S. Detente With Russia?
Secretary of State Designate Rex Tillerson, then ExxonMobil CEO, with President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation on April 16, 2012 Wikimedia Commons / premier.gov.ru The Democratic Party has found … Read More
Will Progressives’ Expectation of Fascism Be Frustrated?
Trump’s nominees for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson (Wikimedia Commons / Office of the President-elect), and for the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions (Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Senate) American progressives are … Read More
Are There Economic Laws?
The four greatest neoclassical economic philosophers: from top left clockwise, Adam Smith (Wikimedia Commons / Scottish National Gallery), J.B.Say (Wikimedia Commons), Carl Menger (Wikimedia Commons / Mises.org) , and David Ricardo(Wikimedia Commons … Read More
Say’s Law Vs. Keynes Law: At the Heart of the Argument
Left: Jean-Baptiste Say (5 January 1787 – 15 November 1832), Wikimedia Commons Right: John Maynard Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), Wikimedia Commons / National Portrait Gallery At … Read More
Obama’s Seizure of Legislative Power
President Obama negotiating with congressional leaders in November 2012 during the fiscal cliff debate Wikimedia Commons / Voice of America This is a story about how the Democratic Party became … Read More
Can Americans See Only the Yin and Not the Yang?
The Yin and Yang of our ideological realities (c) Can Stock Photo / arkela Light and Dark. Good and Evil. What you are For and What you are Against. Yang and … Read More
The Federal Government’s Projected Bankruptcy
Which Way Can We go! (c) Can Stock Photo / svanhorn There is no doubt about it! Unless the federal government drastically reduces mandatory entitlement expenditures in the near future, … Read More