James Burnham’s Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism proposes the thesis that modern liberalism is the ideology of
Jason Richwine reports on Robert Putnam’s reluctant finding that “the more ethnically diverse a community is, the less social capital it possesses” and suggests that
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) makes the following observation: When the supposed right to health care is widely recognized, as
To understand the background of the recent debates on health care it is instructive to look at how this issue is being approached in “progressive”
At one point in the conversations between Frank Miele and Arthur R. Jensen in the book Intelligence, Race, And Genetics: Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen,
The blog OneSTVD [One Standard Devation] has produced a useful table that outlines the similarities between religious creationists and “blank slate” liberals: These educated, liberal
“I like to keep my philosophical work separated from my political aims.” (Rudolf Carnap) It is a welcome development that there is an increasing interest
In the Summer 2009 issue of the Independent Review, Arnold Kling reviews George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller’s new book Animal Spirits: How Human
Steve Chapman writes: If the economy improves and unemployment drops, Obama can take credit. If it fails to improve and unemployment rises, though, he can
At Taki’s Magazine E. Christian Kopf writes: As conservatives and right-wingers like Oswald Spengler, Julius Evola, Whittaker Chambers and many others have pointed out for