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Emergence Cannot Be Planned.
The planned economy has long been a desired outcome by the men of system, and arrangers of the human chess pieces have long pointed to large businesses, making comparisons of their sales with the gross domestic products of small countries. That thinking got Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski to write People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's ( Read more... ) -
Jihadis, Better Not Tangle with Normies.
A year ago, Hamas terrorists decided that paragliding into a concert and shooting up kibbutzes was a good way to call attention to something. The aftermath has been causing all sorts of consternation among Democrats, particularly civil-rights era Jews, and on campuses run by people who should know better.
That attack also prompted Kurt Schlichter ( Read more... ) -
Give Logic a Chance.
It's been my custom not to post reviews of Regnery books because too often the editing turns what might be solid arguments into polemics more effective at shoring up people already convinced than it is in persuading persuadable minds. It is for that reason that I offer former representative Tulsi Gabbard's For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat ( Read more... ) -
If You Were There, You Weren't There.
It might be better for historians without any lived experience of the 1960s to attempt to come to terms with them. Me? I was there and I didn't like it. "The America of the 1950s was an America that worked. The counterculture that followed did not. It's more accurate to describe aspects of it as alien, immoral, and destructive."
Let's yield the ( Read more... )
