Policy

CounterPunch's Strange Claims Regarding Nuclear Power

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There's likely no energy source that faces more criticism, hatred and counter-propaganda than nuclear power.  read more »

The Road to Autocracy

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Ernst Nolte’s Three Faces of Fascism examined the three devastating ideologies that led to the undermining of European democracy in the 1930s. Today, democratic life is also under threat – and there are also three basic forms that this authoritarian threat takes.  read more »

Property: The Myth That Built the World

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Joel Kotkin reviews the recently released book, Property: The Myth That Built the World, by Rowan Moore. The review is excerpted below:  read more »

The Gloomy Future Facing Trade Unions

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Few developments have more cheered progressive activists than the perceived resurgence of labor unions. This has been sparked by largely symbolic efforts to unionize in places such as Starbucks and Amazon  read more »

Two Days After COP28, IEA Delivers More Coal Hard Reality

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Like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, coal abides.  read more »

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You Thought Joe Biden Was Bad? Look at his Democratic Rivals

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Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers are inciting panic among Democratic Party insiders, not to mention the progressive tech oligarchs who bankrolled his 2020 campaign.  read more »

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Multi-culti Reckoning

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The explosion of support for Hamas’s assault on human decency could well turn out to be the high-water mark of the progressive Left. The authoritarian multicultural ideology generated on campuses and transmitted dutifully by the established media has reached its apex and may now begin to descend.  read more »

Why I Do Not Support Christian Nationalism

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I personally am not that interested in the Christian nationalism debate, but the Claremont Institute’s American Mind site asked me to write up my take on it for a symposium on the topic.  read more »

The West Has Been the Real Loser at COP28

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As the COP 28 climate shindig comes to a merciful end, history is truly unfolding, as Marx once remarked, as farce.  read more »

Cop Out

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On Thursday morning, I spoke to the Nebraska Rural Electric Association in Kearney. Before my speech, I chatted with my friend, Chet McWhorter, the general manager of the Cuming County Public Power District.  read more »