After 50 years in Government Joe Biden, much like his party, doesn’t have any new ideas. And so, Ole Joe got the band back together and now he’s dutifully playing all the old hits, massaging all the Leftist erogenous zones in the same way The Stones belt out a carefully curated list of the same… Continue reading The Revenge of the Buzzwords (Part 1: Conspicuous Consumption)
Category: Class Divide
How the consequences of school closings will be used against us
The closing of American schools over COVID was a disgrace. Yes… yes it was. A year of remote distance learning has been disastrous for all American kids, but all of the available data shows that it’s been even worse for poor kids and kids of color. And a decade from now when we begin to… Continue reading How the consequences of school closings will be used against us
The “Welfare Queen” goes mainstream
In the 70’s and 80’s, folks on the side of fiscal and personal responsibility tried to make the argument against a massive Welfare State by discussing the idea of incentives. It was argued that if you pay people not to work, they won’t work. And if you, say, pay people to have children outside of… Continue reading The “Welfare Queen” goes mainstream
Guys… the Marxist BLM founder’s $3 million real estate portfolio is totally on-brand
Look, no one has more fun pointing and laughing at Leftist hypocrisy than I do, but we have to drop the faux shock over the fact that the Marxist founder of BLM is sitting on a mother lode of real estate investments. More to the point, I think to feign surprise at this news is… Continue reading Guys… the Marxist BLM founder’s $3 million real estate portfolio is totally on-brand
Billy Joel’s anti-Government Anthem
First, let me stipulate that for a whole host of reasons, moving from state-to-state in search of lower tax rates and a better regulatory environment was not something Americans typically did in 1977. The World was much bigger back then. Companies, in general, did not have diverse workforces spread out across the country in a… Continue reading Billy Joel’s anti-Government Anthem
Escaping a Rigged System
Angelo Codevilla has an essential piece today on the necessity of a new American Exodus from the vast emerging commercial and governmental system of Elites that is increasingly contrary to the idea of republican self-government. The essential argument is that things have gone too far and it is far too late for us to “vote… Continue reading Escaping a Rigged System
Reimagining “Hellton” Academy
In DEAD POETS SOCIETY, Director Peter Weir establishes the villain of the piece in the very first shot… a series of banners carried by students in a start-of-the-school-year procession which read TRADITION, EXCELLENCE, HONOR, DISCIPLINE. Absent from these banners are concepts like ENLIGHTENMENT, KNOWLEDGE, MATURITY, and CRTICIAL THINKING. Later, in a conversation that is meant… Continue reading Reimagining “Hellton” Academy
Jodi Shaw: American Hero
I think a lot of us have a sense that there is something deeply wrong in America. The sense that there is an army of half-assed mediocre-brained wannabe authoritarians sweeping through our institutions using fear, intimidation, and cancel culture to reshape those institutions in their own vaguely Marixist, and entirely stupid, image. A lot of… Continue reading Jodi Shaw: American Hero
Trump 2024?
Could Trump come back and win again? That’s the question everyone is asking, right? And that’s at the heart of what’s really going on with the latest version of Trumpeachment, isn’t it? What if he comes back? (gulp!) Look I have no idea if Trump will be back, or if he does come back, if… Continue reading Trump 2024?
Hogg’s World
David Hogg wanted to change the world… Now he’s starting a pillow company… because it turns out that Changing the World! is hard. Folks, if David Hogg can’t do it with the backing of the mainstream media, Harvard, Fortune 500 companies, and every ambulatory Democratic politician with a pulse… well, it makes you wonder if… Continue reading Hogg’s World