Why the Coppingers and the Zuckenbergs are on the same side on key issues
You do one useful thing, and you get attacked for it. Who’d be a politician?
Leftists will blame it on capitalism.
An Irish senator has warned that the government is making people’s fundamental freedoms reliant on the consumption of a private product, adding that people’s money is being “siphoned into the pockets of pharma and tech giants.” The remarks were made this week by Senator Sharon Keogan during a Seanad debate on the government’s extended Covid […]
Two of the best known writers of the 1950s in the United States were Whitaker Chambers, the exposer of Communist Party/Soviet penetration of the American administration and author of Witness; and Ayn Rand who wrote the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Both remain betes noir of the left, but they had little in […]
Not so many years ago, ‘political correctness’ was an eye-rolling description of our culture’s tendency to self-censor in polite company, and to shame those who wouldn’t play along. Soon after, the culturally observant noted the ascent of ‘identity politics’ — a growing pattern of pitting aggrieved minority groups against each other on the basis of […]
While Marx as the Mystic Meg of the inevitability of socialism has long since lost any credibility outside of the unreconstructed far left, and people who have never actually read him for the most part, he is still an important figure. The first volume of Capital stands as an excellent work of economic history. It […]