In 1948 the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The document guarantees the individual the protection of the law, freedom of expression, and economic, social, and cultural liberty. It applies to all people irrespectively of their race, gender, and nationality. It didn't describe the world as it was, but it meant to be the guideline for international conduct, the ideal for humanity...
The Regressives - problems with the Left - Part III

This series has reached the point when some serious naval-gazing is due. Political correctness is when society does it. Since sometime around 2015, PC has been on a steroid treatment. The cure is far less dangerous than the disease, but there are side-effects.
Generation Snowflake - safe spaces,...
The Regressives - problems with the Left - Part II

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." - Thomas Sowell
Let's turn our blazing guns on the Ur-Left.
Socialism is in the vogue again, at least among those who never had to try it. According to polls, half of the young...
The Regressives - problems with the Left

After last week's broadside against the Right, the time has come to swing wildly in the other direction as well. Some changes in strategy are due. My criticism of the conservatives concentrated on the center, for two reasons. One is that the far-right extremes have very distinct optics from the mainstream,...
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