They never expected to be put in the position of having to vote for an actual bona fide Socialist to avoid re-electing Trump. But NeverTrumpers should have expected it. The writing’s been on the wall for quite a while that … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”.] Interesting article: Capitalism, according to Marx, is filled with contradictions, all of which guarantee its eventual failure. One example is the belief that capitalists, seeking every greater profits, will increase the “immiseration” of the working class, … Continue reading →
I’m referring to the idea that differences of opinion about politics are okay, and people can love one another despite them. Here’s what I’m talking about: On Twitter, the Ohio-born singer [who was the lead singer of the rock group … Continue reading →
On MSNBC, for example: That was apparently today. I would like to find the segment that followed, but in a quick search I haven’t been able to do so. However, it’s not hard to imagine how it would go, and … Continue reading →
An interesting piece by Melanie Phillips: The stakes in this election were enormous, not just for Britain but for the world. Labour is led by the most far-left leadership in its history, supporting terrorists abroad and incubating virulent antisemitism at … Continue reading →
The upcoming UK election (December 12) has focused on the Brexit issue, but there’s another one: the Labour Party’s anti-Semitism. You can find several articles on the topic in today’s Telegraph: for example, this one as well as this. You … Continue reading →
Democrats would love, love, love to get rid of the EC. Their rhetoric is to establish a “make every vote count” democracy (republic? who needs it?). But the actual motivation is that they believe a national vote would favor them … Continue reading →
Peter Boghossian writes: The correspondence theory of truth basically states that objective truth exists and we can know something about it through evidence and reason… In Culture War 2.0 the correspondence theory of truth—with its commitment to the idea that … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Artfldgr] Here’s an interesting interview with two black women explaining how they realized they were actually Republicans. It takes a particular kind of courage: Parker: Well, I came to believe what I believe by reading a proverb a … Continue reading →
…the Nineteen Eighty-Four election, according to Victor Davis Hanson: It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future versus American traditionalism. I don’t think there’s any “becoming” about it. This has been true of elections ever since at least … Continue reading →
We’ve already talked an awful lot here about the phenomenon of the NeverTrumpers on the right. Even so, this piece on the subject is well worth reading: Before President Trump’s explosive entrance onto the political scene, mainstream conservatism was somewhat … Continue reading →
The Democrats pretended to do something today, but it was nothing or worse than nothing. Byron York calls the resolution they passed “The Adam Schiff Empowerment Act.” But Schiff was already informally empowered to do what the act still allows … Continue reading →