Brion McClanahan observes: Yankees are having their revenge on the rest of America. Michael Lind argues that the modern mess of wokism is blowback from Southern dominance the general government from the New Deal through the 1980s. Lind correctly shows that Southerners used the government against powerful Yankees for about fifty years. It’s payback time. He might have a point. We live in Yankee America with the political puritans in both parties attempting to shove nationalism down our throats. More importantly, the culture war wouldn’t be possible without the presence of the Yankee elite in prep schools and universities. As Lind … Continue reading →
Are single-agent home sales risky? Study finds buyers, sellers harmed without own agents
Study finds buyers, sellers harmed without own agents
A study shows buyers and sellers should have their own agents.
and last updated 2021-05-31 10:11:32-04
Some of the big winners in the metro Phoenix hot housing market are real estate agents.
Commissions are up because sale prices are growing.
But a recent report by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has a warning about how some homes are being sold.
The study found buyers and sellers can be harmed if only one real estate agent is involved.
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Over the last year, there s been a torrent of articles on neoconservatism raising (usually implicitly) some vexing issues: Are neoconservatives different from other conservatives? Is neoconservatism a Jewish movement? Is it “anti-Semitic” to say so?
The dispute between the neocons and more traditional conservatives “paleoconservatives” is especially important because the latter now find themselves on the outside, looking in on the conservative power structure.
Hopefully, some of the venom has been taken out of this argument by the remarkable recent article by neoconservative “godfather” Irving Kristol (“The Neoconservative Persuasion,”
Weekly Standard, August 25, 2003). With commendable frankness, Kristol admitted that
“the historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism would seem to be this: to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics s
The pandemic saw a huge amount of power and money transferred to what Michael Lind calls the “overclass” of politicians, corporate managers and bureaucrats. Small businesses shut down while big-box stores deemed “essential” remained open. The laptop class worked from home to the delight of many of its members while the working class brought them stuff. Federal money flowed like water to the connected. The national debt went from scandalous to essentially absurd, an amount of money that no one expects to be repaid.
The Chinese Communist Party used the threat of the pandemic and lockdowns to crush a rebellion in Hong Kong. The American powers-that-be did something similar: People who demonstrated for the wrong causes were called granny-killers and shut down; people who demonstrated for overclass-approved causes (like New York’s “Black Trans Lives Matter” rally, featuring thousands and endorsed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, even as he welded the gates of a Jewish park clos