Blog 3 Columns

What is Neoliberalism?1
- Economics
- November 6, 2018
Neoliberalism is one of those concepts that changes meaning depending on whom you ask. Whereas the intellectual opponents of capitalism use it to refer to the political and economic system that emerged in the 1980s and continues to be hegemonic today, classical liberals see it as a vague and empty concept that adds nothing to
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Remembering Jim Jones and the Socialist Ideals He Held 0
- Culture
- November 6, 2018
Nov. 18 will mark 40 years since nearly 1,000 Americans—a majority of them African American—perished in a mass suicide/murder in the Jonestown compound in the jungles of Guyana. Many misconceptions surround this horror, but a new account dispels some common myths. Cult leader Jim Jones is often portrayed as having been a normal fundamentalist Christian
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Jordan Peterson Made His Own Political Ad for Dems 0
- November 6, 2018
Jordan Peterson has become something of a household name in the last several years. His strong stance on free speech, his support of well-reasoned civil discourse, and his gentle but hard-hitting talks on the basics of life has endeared himself to many young millennials. Above all, Peterson’s new book, 12 Rules for Life, is a monument
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D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together 0
- Culture
- November 6, 2018
Let’s say you and some of your friends decide to gather your young children together a couple of days a week for a few hours of free play. Maybe you switch off who leads the gaggle of kids each week, allowing for some shared free time and flexibility. Sounds like a great arrangement for all,
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A Democratic Congress Could Be a Perfect Foil for Trump 0
- Politics
- November 6, 2018
Did former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg just take a page out of the playbook of Senator Ed Muskie from half a century ago? In his first off-year election in 1970, President Richard Nixon ran a tough attack campaign to hold the 52 House seats the GOP had added in ’66 and ’68, and to
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The Sad Death of ‘All Politics is Local’0
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
Even before Justice Anthony Kennedy’s blockbuster announcement that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court, it looked like the 2018 midterms would probably serve a nationalized referendum on Donald Trump. Against the backdrop of the migrant child-detention facilities controversy earlier this summer, and the contentious process to replace Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh, the “Second
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The F-Bomb and the Age of Public Crudity 4
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
Let’s start with a question: Is anyone other than your correspondent sick of the public use of the “F-word”? Hollywood actors, celebrities, politicians, commentators, bloggers and those who comment on blogs sling the word around like sailors on shore leave. (That simile is probably unfair to sailors.) When I am scouting out the news online every
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Not Too Big to Fail: Why Facebook’s Long Reign May Be Coming to an End 0
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
Over the last several years, Facebook has gone from facilitating the free flow of information to inhibiting it through incremental censorship and account purges. What began with the ban of Alex Jones last summer has since escalated to include the expulsion of hundreds of additional pages, each political in nature. And as more people become
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Five Ways Couples Manage to Kill Love – and How to Avoid Them 0
- Culture
- November 5, 2018
Dr. John Buri, author of “How to Love Your Wife,” has an announcement: Love does not commit suicide. Yet we all know that love can die. So how does it get from a thriving, pulsating feeling and action to something as dead as a doornail? Plain and simple: We kill it. Some may say such
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What is Neoliberalism?1