The Future of Capitalism
Ira Stoll surveys the economic scene.
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The Olympics and the Spirit of Capitalism
The winter Olympics may seem an odd occasion to celebrate the virtues of entrepreneurial capitalism and economic decentralization, but a front-page piece in today’s New York Times provides an appropriate opportunity to do just that.
As the winter games conclude, the U.S. leads all competing countries in total medals won – 36 and counting – and [...]
Joseph Stack: Disillusioned Leftist, Not “Racist Right-wing Teabagger”
Despite the leftist ideology revealed in Joseph Stack’s manifesto, shortly after he crashed his plane into the IRS building in Austin, TX, progressive media lept to align him with the Tea Party movement, describing him as right-wing, racist, anti-tax, patriot, or militia. Sensing the danger the average American citizen in the Tea Party movement represents to Democrats in 2010 and 2012, they [...]
“The Coming Insurrection,” Joe Stack and Anarchy
Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. – Joe Stack
When Glenn Beck brought up the book “The Coming Insurrection” on one of last week’s shows once again, expressing his grave concern about its’ content, I never expected [...]
Capitalism and the Jews – New York Times Book Review
The question of why so many Jews have been so good at making money is a touchy one. For hundreds of years, it has been fraught with suspicion, denial, resentment, guilt, self-hatred and violence. No wonder Jews and gentiles alike are so uncomfortable confronting Jewish capitalistic competence. Still, in his slim essay collection “Capitalism and [...]
The Velvet Philosophical Revolution
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the battle for political freedom goes on.
A Non-Violent Jihadi is Still a Jihadi
How Hizb ut-Tahrir spreads extremism around the world.
Bin Laden Goes Green
What does the world’s most notorious terrorist have in common with Al Gore?
Make Mine Freedom: Prophetic Cold War-Era Comic
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While watching the news tonight I experienced a flash of dissonance, whereby my preferred perception of reality was distinctly incongruent with the moment. I found my usual optimistic outlook on events in direct conflict with the reality of America’s descent into the radical blend of Marxism, Socialism and Communism currently progressed by the Obama administration. [...]
Howard Zinn’s History of Hate
For the late Marxist historian, America was always the enemy.
