How Should the American Republican Government Work?
While watching the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, I was struck by how much more these hearings were than just about her nomination to the Supreme Court. In … Read More
Tag: neoliberalism
The ideology of classical liberals who also believe in capitalist free-markets.
Ideological Labels: Nationalism, Conservatism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Neoliberalism
I have just read a thought-provoking article on The American Interest website entitled National Conservatism: A Guide for the Perplexed. The post, written by Aaron Sibarium, notes how political and ideological … Read More
What We Will Fight Over In the 2020 Campaign
It has only been a few months since the end of the 2018 U.S. campaign season. Nevertheless, we can already see what we will fight over in the 2020 campaign. … Read More
What Is at Stake in the 2018 Midterm Elections
In the coming 2018 midterm elections, we will have an opportunity to see if the same old dysfunctional political patterns observed in recent decades continue. With a cold civil war … Read More
Polarization, Not Partisanship, Is Causing U.S. Political Dysfunction
Every now and then, I read something reminding me a great many believe our political dysfunction is rooted in simple partisanship. I have just done that again, reading The Serve … Read More
Income Distribution and Economic Freedom
The vicious ideological warfare between the Left and the Right is caused by one salient question: Just how useful is government in solving social and economic problems? A subsidiary issue … Read More
Does Any People Deserve a Democracy?
Germans stand on top of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate days before it was torn down in 1989. Wikimedia Commons / Unknown photographer The photograph above is a … Read More
Confirmation Bias: Who Is Most Guilty?
Using a compass and a map to find one’s desired direction. Wikimedia Commons / Audrius Meskauskas Echo chambers for different ideological orientations abound throughout the modern world. One can see them … Read More
The Structure of Social Revolutions
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), a romantic representation of the French Revolution of 1830. Wikimedia Commons / Louvre Museum All around us across the entire planet, human … Read More
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
Taxes and Hauser’s Law
Hauser’s Curve Image Credit: Wikimedia commons/Sugar-Baby-Love With a Republican tax bill having passed both houses of Congress and certain to be signed by the President, taxes … Read More
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
A Big Trump Success: Deconstruction of The Regulatory State
President Trump signs executive order in his first 10 days of office to curb government regulations. NBC News / Carlos Barria / Reuters One huge Trump achievement only marginally commented … 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
Should The U.S. Senate Scrap Their Filibuster Rules?
The United States Senate in session in their chamber in the U.S. Capitol building. Image Credit: CDM.me Every now and then, President Donald Trump urges the U.S. Senate to get … Read More
Do U.S. Companies Need Tax Cuts?
Plot of annual Real U.S. GDP per capita growth in percent averaged over ten year periods. This is the major reason why huge U.S. corporate tax cuts are needed! The … 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
Major Problems for the Republican Party
The U.S. Senate voting NO on repeal of Obamacare on July 27, 2017. Screenshot of ABC News coverage. Everywhere the leaders of the two major American political parties look, insuperable … Read More
The American Deep State
The ultimate motto of the deep state, as enunciated by Napoleon the pig, the Supreme Leader of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Image Credit: QuotesGram.com What is more important in our … 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 Progressive Disaster That Is Illinois
Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan speaking to press about the status of the state budget on June 22, 2017 during a special legislative session called by GOP … 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 the Left Would Overthrow the GOP and Donald Trump
Progressives man the barricades the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Youtube / Ibrahim Ka-Almasih Garba It is not as if Donald J. Trump … 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
Reaction To The Violent Idiots Amongst Us
Fight between UC Berkeley students and Trump supporters. Screenshot of Fox News report. Yesterday, as a nation we suffered through a horrific reminder of just how bad the relations between … Read More
The Rot Goes Deep in the Democratic Party
Democratic Party workers watching the presidential election returns in shock on the night of November 8, 2016. Photo Credit: AP / Matt Rourke One might expect such a lurid title … Read More
Are US Progressives Committing Political Suicide?
Anti-Trump Resistance protest Screenshot of Youtube video from the Next News Network American progressives are becoming increasingly unhinged as they push ever further toward the political Left. Their hysterical reaction to … Read More
Progressives Incite Hatred and Violence
Riot by progressive students at the University of California, Berkeley against right-winger, Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos Screen shot of ABC news report The Democratic hysteria and that of their mainstream media allies … Read More