Enjoying the view from Limbo
We live in the age of speed. From our technology to our politics, getting things done quickly, without “dragging one’s feet,” has become the definitive virtue of modern existence; and I say “existence,” rather than life, since speed and life have very little to do with one another. This age we call “modernity” will likely be remembered, by the inhabitants of some future...
Here is the latest foreign policy statement from U.S. President Donald J. Trump: After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)! —...
Now that the dust has settled, if you want to know everything worth knowing about the double whammy of Democratic debates that recently swept through America, but lack the stupidity to waste your time actually watching that bunch of nitwits pitch poverty and desolation to the masses, then I recommend this brief but, I daresay, exhaustive analysis:
Things move so fast in communism that we’ve barely had time to digest the first half of the first Democratic debate before the second half is over and done with. Thus, before getting into the nitty-gritty on the big showdown between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, let us take a moment to review the preview, shall we? Episode I: The Phantom Menace As...
The Democratic Party’s first presidential debate for the 2020 Election will be held in just a couple of hours, as of this writing. There are, as of this writing, seventy-one declared candidates, spanning thirty-two identity groups (forty-six if we include all those of Elizabeth Warren which are, as of this writing, still in arbitration); however, only ninety-four of the candidates will be participating...
Today, I see the following headline on Right Scoop: “WATCH: Ted Cruz GRILLS Google rep on allegations of anti-Trump bias exposed by Project Veritas.” I can understand why Lyin’ Ted thinks no one should be allowed to show “bias” against his beloved daddy. But shouldn’t he have the emotional maturity to at least keep this fawning hero-worship to the privacy of his own...
Socialized Medicine / What is Progressivism?
by Daren Jonescu · Published June 25, 2019 · Last modified June 26, 2019
Ah, it’s summer, the season of suntans, barbecues…and British court-ordered ritual baby-killings. This year’s death cult festival features the tale of a Roman Catholic family, opposed on religious grounds to abortion, fighting to save the life of their perfectly healthy unborn child from the government’s overzealous limb-rippers and head-crushers. Fortunately, for the time being at least, this story appears to have eked out...
As I prepare an essay about the latest ghoulishness from the proprietors of the theme-park-cum-abattoir that offensively continues to call itself Great Britain — someone please tell be what’s “great” about it these days — I am only too happy to take a short break from my disgust, and before (hopefully) inspiring yours, to enjoy that part of the living world which has...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost
by Daren Jonescu · Published June 23, 2019 · Last modified June 2, 2023
The problem with libertarianism, as an idea, is that it is grounded essentially in economic utilitarianism, which is to say in the presupposition that the free market in and of itself is sufficient structure to guarantee a good and healthy society. On other occasions, I have addressed the false premise supporting this fantasy, which we may call “The Free Market Fallacy,” namely that...
Last week, someone leaked internal White House polling that showed Trump in trouble against the Democrats in many contested states, including some that he won in 2016. Trump first claimed there were no such polls — in other words, he lied — and then the GOP circled the wagons and declared that they had some “new” internal polling that showed him doing very...
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