George Monbiot, popular Guardian columnist, beacon light of global environmentalism, is also the kind of progressive who insists on seeing the world as he wishes it were and not as it really is. Wearing these kind of blinders will not help us get a better environment or better world. In his latest column , Monbiot states that: “The forces that
Senator Joe McCarthy perfected the technique in the United States: whenever you disagree with anybody, don’t debate ideas, go right into name calling. In McCarthy’s day, the epithet of choice was “Communist.” In recent years, it has morphed into “racist, sexist, homophobe, latinophobe, Islamophobe, xenophobe etc., etc.” There were Communists in
“What Does Steve Bannon Want?” is the title of an article by Christopher Caldwell (senior editor at the “conservative” Weekly Standard ), written for the New York Times on February 26, 2017. Mr. Caldwell gets to the essence of it when he writes: “Steve Bannon has the same idea that tea party activists have: a class of regulators in the
Rubio post-mortems miss the point. In the end, it is just more fall-out from crony capitalism. None of the post-mortems of Rubio’s campaign I have seen mention the real reason why the young senator, so articulate, so successful, recently touted as the future of his party, never got launch speed in his campaign for the presidency. It is actually
Here we go again. Franklin Roosevelt infamously redefined the meaning of the word liberalism in the 1930s to mean more and more government control of the economy. This was in complete contradiction to what the word had meant for centuries, as defined by people like Jefferson: less government control of the economy. Now advocates of more government
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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