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Climate Zealots Plot Path of Destruction
Steven Tucker writes for the Federalist about the scary goals of climate extremists. The news that two young female “climate activists” have been arrested for hurling a tin of Heinz…
Anti-capitalism
political ideology and movement opposed to capitalism
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Dads, Kids, and Capitalism
If you read conservative culture commentary with any regularity, you’ll frequently come across an article or two highlighting the critical importance of fathers in the lives of their children. The…
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Radicals from the ’60s and ’70s have their day
Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online probes the backgrounds of those leading today’s “revolutionary” shift in American public life. This is what the revolution looks like. Weather Underground terrorists, who…
Elections & Public Integrity
Not feeling the Bern
David Harsanyi of the Federalist offers a cold dose of reality to Bernie Sanders’ supporters. Let’s concede that the media’s distress about Donald Trump’s nomination is well founded. I certainly…
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Calling out Bernie Sanders’ foolishness
Bernie Sanders is said to be surging against Hillary Clinton, as many of the true-believer statists in the Democratic Party swoon for a candidate who sounds more deeply committed to…
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National Review columnist probes Bernie Sanders’ economic understanding
Kevin Williamson describes for National Review Online readers what he considers to be socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Dark Age Economics.” Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn socialist who represents Vermont in the…
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Ben Zycher on the hypocrisy of the “disinvestment” crusade
Writing on AEI, economist Ben Zycher has a devastating piece on the crusade to get as many institutions as possible to “disinvest” from fossil fuels. I particularly liked his point…
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Anti-Capitalism Month at Carolina?
This month, UNC-Chapel Hill is hosting four events decrying the ills of capitalism. The first is John Komlos’ “Capitalism with a Human Face,” on October 8. In the presentation, Komlos will take “a…
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Stossel pans hypocritical celebrities
John Stossel focuses his attention on anti-capitalist celebrities in a column posted at RealClearPolitics.com. Celebrities who support big-government politicians routinely take advantage of tax breaks, which reduce the amount they…
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The perils of philanthropy
My friend and occasional Pope Center contributor Martin Morse Wooster writes here about the Packard Foundation. David Packard was a believer in limited government, but the foundation he founded has…
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Don’t give Occupy Raleigh a permanent home
The Raleigh City Council has been asked by the Occupy Raleigh movement to give their band of anti-capitalist anarchists a permanent home. Bad idea. Aiding and abetting these nihilists has…
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Endowed by Communists with Alienable, Anti-Capitalist Rights
I think I should like to attend this meeting. Maybe I’ll learn why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights begins well, rots after Article 20, and tanks in Article 29(3).