Ignorance Is Bliss
While all the talk at present is about economic corners turned and markets charging ahead, no one is paying much notice to an American economy deteriorating before our eyes. These myopic commentators seem to be simply moving ...
While all the talk at present is about economic corners turned and markets charging ahead, no one is paying much notice to an American economy deteriorating before our eyes. These myopic commentators seem to be simply moving ...
The media love disaster. One can hardly sit through a half hour of cable news without hearing dire prophecies of "climate change" and other ecotastrophes. And over the past year, television pundits have warned ...
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. —Karl Marx If Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin were alive today, they would be leading contenders for ...
For those market boosters who are prattling on about the possibility of a “jobless recovery,” I offer an invitation to join me for a breakfast of “fat-free bacon,” “eggless omelets,” and ...
Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included. Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with 1 million schoolchildren now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman ...
Having listened to country music on and (mostly) off since Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" four decades ago, I checked in on Billboard's Top 30 Country chart to see if anything was new. A possible advantage about not ...
The flap over Henry Lewis Gates and arresting officer James Crowley was supposed to be a "teachable moment," but other than the predictable outcries of "white racism lives!" the incident has proven to be of ...
Under Discussion:A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ‘08 and the Descent into Depression. Richard A. Posner. Harvard University Press (2009). 346 pages. Richard Posner tells us that capitalism has failed, but his own ...
Under Discussion: Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, Doubleday (2009), 432 pages. Christopher Caldwell opens his Burke-evoking opus examining postwar ...
Many of you will still be alive in 50 years. It’s interesting to think about what life will be like in 50 years technologically and otherwise. Predictions are risky, especially when they’re about the future, but I ...
Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp’s Malthusian fable of post-Apartheid Johannesburg. District 9, a violent science fiction movie set in a Johannesburg slum inhabited by 1.8 million feckless refugee space aliens, is the ...
The nationwide revelry surrounding our apparent economic recovery was disrupted this week by the release of lower-than-expected retail sales data. However, rather than sending a chill up the spines of those hoping for a quick ...
I was trying to watch with my wife the DVD of He's Just Not That Into You, which is to romantic comedies what Watchmen is to superhero flicks: a confusing bundle of plotlines about the upscale romantic entanglements of what ...
News Flash"Blacks Like Malt Liquor! Black Entertainment Television (BET) refers to me as "a White blogger." But they got my name wrong. It goes back to this blog post from July 7, 2009, where I commented on ...