Writing at Commentary, Noah Rothman has a short, but powerfully insightful, post entitled Republicanism without Principle. The essay is, immediately, about Trump and the Republican party, but it applies as nicely to republicanism as a form of government under the pressure of radical populism. (It’s worth noting that Commentary is a conservative publication; one finds…
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Berlusconi, Politics, Right-wing Populism, Trump
Berlusconi’s Political Career as a Partial Analog for Trump’s
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
One reads much these days about how similar Trump and Silvio Berlusconi supposedly are. There’s something tempting about comparing Trump’s political situation to Silvio Berlusconi’s: both are businessmen, held no earlier office before winning a national election, are admirers of Putin, crude, anti-intellectual, and lecherous. There’s reason to look at parallels between the two; one…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 12.6.16
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Here in Whitewater, we’ll have a partly sunny Tuesday with a high of thirty-five. Sunrise is 7:12 AM and sunset is 4:20 PM, for 9h 08m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 40.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s city government will hold a public meeting on street reconstruction from…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.20.16
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of thirty-six. (The average November high here is about forty-six.) Sunrise is 6:54 AM and sunset 4:26 PM, for 9h 32m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 58% of its visible disk illuminated. Worth reading (or hearing) in full — Katherine J.…
Recent Tweets, 10.23 – 10.29
by JOHN ADAMS •
For how long? Netflix Consumes a Third of America’s Peak-Hours Internet Bandwidth – The Atlantic Wire bit.ly/srXemP 28 Oct Cap Times sticks up for Joe Biden (someone, somewhere had to): Biden’s populism is right for Wisconsin bit.ly/tEkRfX 26 Oct GOP rejects Dem-sponsored resolution on free speech rights in Assembly gallery bit.ly/sKTjtQ 26 Oct Why the…
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Rep. Paul Ryan on Business and Markets
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Whitewater, Wisconsin is divided between two congressional districts, one of which is served by Rep. Paul Ryan. The online Washington Examiner has a brief opinion piece called, “Paul Ryan’s Free-Market Populism.” The article mentions an essay that Ryan recently wrote for Forbes in which he decried the tendency of large corporations to seek government handouts…