In the debate about climate change, people talk a lot about the cost of not doing anything, but they more rarely talk about the cost of the various policies that have been proposed to mitigate climate change. In order to determine what…
Mois : février 2017
Brian Stelter wrote a self-congratulatory piece for CNN in which he praises journalists for their role in Flynn’s resignation. According to him and many other people in the media, investigative journalism and information leaked by courageous people in the administration led to Flynn’s…
A friend recently created a petition asking the governors of several blue states to « explore the possibility of forming an interstate, single-payer healthcare system for their residents ». I personally don’t think a single-payer healthcare system is a good idea, and I have no idea…
With Flynn’s resignation, the anti-Russia hysteria, which had been receding a little bit recently as people were busy losing their mind over other things, is back with a vengeance. This story has been developing for more than a month and, after weeks of…
Under the leadership of a superintendent who took seriously the disparate impact doctrine, which assumes that any policy that disproportionately affects some groups is thereby discriminatory, the public schools in St. Paul, Minnesota changed their disciplinary procedures so as to…
Robert Paul Wolff’s book is a critical introduction to Marx’s economic theory from someone who is sympathetic to his views about the exploitative nature of capitalism. He spends a lot of time on the theory of value, which is the main theme…
Trump apparently decided to dump Abrams, who there won’t be Deputy Secretary of State, which is a very good news. Of course, this happy development has nothing to do with the activity of the opposition, who was far too busy opposing…
Several people have pointed out about my post from yesterday that, beside the accusations that were made against Sessions during his confirmation hearing in 1986 and used again to disqualify him this year, there were many other reasons to oppose him.…
I predicted a few days ago that, if Trump was stupid enough to nominate Abrams for Deputy Secretary of State, he would find several Democrats to confirm him. Well, unsurprisingly, I just read this article in Al-Monitor which explains that, as…
Jeff Sessions was finally confirmed by the Senate, after the Democrats made a spectacle of themselves again. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I’m sure he will be a great Attorney General, not least because he will actually enforce immigration…