Showing posts with label Utopianism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utopianism. Show all posts
Monday, November 17, 2025

The period is also marked by the phony utopianism of the libertarian Americanists who exalt the individual and deny that there are any limits

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 In their idealism they are little different than Zohran Mamdani.  ... The United States is undeniably the beacon of hope for the world bec...

If Elon Musk is a utopian of the right, Zohran Mamdani is one of the left

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 Musk's is technocratic utopianism warmed over for the chip revolution, Mamdani's is old-fashioned statism: “New York, tonight you h...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

This is quite utopian for Elon Musk to say, especially after failing so spectacularly to cut federal spending

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Freedom Works tells you why organizing society around the single utopian principle they believe in has always been bad

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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Brad DeLong's new book about the world achieving enough prosperity doesn't have enough words

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DeLong had begun working on this story in 1994. He had produced hundreds of thousands of words, then hundreds of thousands more, updating ...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Germany remains the cause of and the solution to all of Europe's problems: Flip the switch to "On" and Germany's need for Russian gas ends

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... in 2010, when Germany was generating more than 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants, Chancellor Angela Merkel extende...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

John Kass, like most normie conservatives, suffers from Just You Wait Syndrome

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Here : Will there come a day when fed-up Americans push back against all this stuff? Yes. How long have I been hearing that one? My whole li...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

COVID-19 in the largest countries by population: Update for Sun 5/2/21

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Countries with 200 million population or more: China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria. Data isn't available i...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

If it isn't obvious by now that you're an idiot, Johnny Reb tried to tell you

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The Civil War was obviously a waste of time, blood and property. For every Confederate statue now coming down at the hands of BLM there...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

The communist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can run but can't hide her utopian schoolgirl fantasies from Al Gore's amazing wayback machine

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Green New Deal FAQ A 10-year plan A World War 2 scale mobilization Upgrading all our buildings Economic security to all who are una...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Justin Raimondo knows Mexico is the real threat to America, but he's so against war he can't argue for it when he needs to

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Forget the Russian ‘Threat’: Mexico Is Our Real Problem: The cartels control our southern neighbor [W]e hear almost nothing about ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A. Barton Hinkle shows once again that libertarianism is of the left, not the right

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Here : [B]oth parties have grown more extreme in recent years. Congressional Republicans certainly have. Congressional Democrats tend ...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Camille Paglia has come a long way, but still transgresses with her own utopian good old days

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From her remarks here : We have to return to the authentic 1960s vision, which is about identity coming from consciousness, which tran...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

A materialist imagines that for the first time in history we are free

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Wow, while I wasn't looking utopia suddenly arrived. Reminds me of nothing so much as Millerism . It never occurs to this guy that...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

The Reagan GDP miracle is a complete myth: It was all government spending (on defense)

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And it set a horrible precedent for the dramatic overspending of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, which has sent us on a course to obliv...
Friday, October 7, 2016

"Conservatism" is exhausted, Rod Dreher calls for "new ideas"

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In " Help New Ideas Arise on the Right ". I guess that subscription of his to The New Yorker isn't paying off. A...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

A proposed definition of "transvestite" for The Devil's Dictionary

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TRANSVESTITE , noun : An utopian; an infantile person for whom the irreducible distinctions of reality are unacceptable and can readily ...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Rush Limbaugh, expert in European history: "Belgium has never been a real country"

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Here . Belgium seceded from the Netherlands in 1830 and has been an independent country ever since. My father helped liberate it from ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

George Will falls in love with Bill Clinton's free-trade utopianism

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George Will  here : 'You who are reading this column probably have a chronic, indeed incurable trade deficit with your barber or...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Conservatives are prisoners of the '3 million Republicans stayed home in 2012' meme

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The meme began with Jeffrey Lord at The American Spectator, here , whose real motive was to beat up the party for nominating another moder...