Klein and Thompson’s ‘Abundance’ Offers Democrats Criticism — and More Utopian Thinking
New books by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundancegarnering attention because it contains an unusually honest acknowledgement that Democrats failed because they placed other priorities before economic growth. However, the book repeats the central mistakes of liberalism under the Democrats. It is to speculate that the role of government is not to protect citizens from […]
We Need Better Forest Management, Not Utopian Fantasies
NEW YORK—It’s that time again for the Left. Another crisis it just can’t let go to waste. The crisis of the day is a series of large-scale forest fires in Canada—at least some apparently started by arson—that caused a huge amount of smoke to descend on the United States. Some areas got hit particularly […]
On Utopian Pacifism
I’m a Utopian Pacifist. Although I’ve written ten successful books on American gun law*, I support no weapons of any kind on the surface of the Earth, in an era of enduring peace, prosperity, harmony, and abundance. It turns out this is impossible (utopian). The problem is The Four Horsemen of Human Havoc: angry, hungry, […]
Netanyahu’s Utopian Plan for ‘Gaza 2035’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday announced a utopian plan to rebuild Gaza, dubbed “Gaza 2035.” in power point file Although this article was apparently published by the Prime Minister’s Office and is available (in Hebrew) on the Ynet news website, the Israeli government does not believe that Gaza would be open to trade […]
On this day in history, January 4, 1965, LBJ touts utopian ‘Great Society’ in State of the Union address
On this day in history, January 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed a utopian new vision for the United States under a greatly expanded federal government, which he called a great It was named society. “We aim to establish human and social harmony, so that each of us can expand the meaning of his […]