It was 1968 all over again, and Occupy Wall Street was the Grateful Dead concert that never ended. In a textbook case of history repeating itself as farce, images of Karl Marx and Che Guevara were everywhere and OWS politics…
In 2008 America elected a president whose pastor for 20 years preached anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, advocated bizarre pseudo-scientific racial ideas, opposed interracial marriage, praised communist dictatorships, denounced black “assimilation,” and taught Afrocentric feel-good nonsense to schoolchildren. When Americans discovered the…
When President Obama demanded in September that “millionaires and billionaires” “pay their fair share,” he laid a claim to justice, albeit justice wrongly understood. America’s tax code is unjust, he argued–not because everyone doesn’t pay the same rate, but because…