Category Archives: Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim

‘Oliver Twisted’

English, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Literature, Political Correctness, Pop-Culture, Propaganda, The West

Via VDARE.COM’s James Fulford comes an alert to another friend’s excellent review on “Big Hollywood.” With flare, Sam Karnick, of The American Culture (and much more), chronicles the PBS “scheme of political and social transformation,” as evinced in its “adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel Oliver Twist.”

According to the PBS’s remedial revisionism, Nancy is black. Men are bad, women good. Fagin is driven to crime by anti-Semitism, “more than any choice of his own.” All “people are driven to crime by poverty.”

And, as Fulford points out, “nineteenth-century England, which had more freedom of religion than anywhere but the United States,” is made to sound “more like medieval Spain.”

Read Sam’s excellent piece about the bowdlerization of a beloved classic.

'Oliver Twisted'

English, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Literature, Political Correctness, Pop-Culture, Propaganda, The West

Via VDARE.COM’s James Fulford comes an alert to another friend’s excellent review on “Big Hollywood.” With flare, Sam Karnick, of The American Culture (and much more), chronicles the PBS “scheme of political and social transformation,” as evinced in its “adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel Oliver Twist.”

According to the PBS’s remedial revisionism, Nancy is black. Men are bad, women good. Fagin is driven to crime by anti-Semitism, “more than any choice of his own.” All “people are driven to crime by poverty.”

And, as Fulford points out, “nineteenth-century England, which had more freedom of religion than anywhere but the United States,” is made to sound “more like medieval Spain.”

Read Sam’s excellent piece about the bowdlerization of a beloved classic.

King Krugman Cross With German ‘Know-Nothing’

Democrats, Economy, Europe, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Political Economy, Republicans

Or as I dubbed the scolded Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück: “The German who’s really an Austrian … economist.”

Reports Spiegel Online:

“Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has blasted Germany’s Peer Steinbrück for his resistance to economic stimulus spending. Now the ‘boneheaded,’ ‘know-nothing’ finance minister has sent Krugman an invitation to come to Berlin to discuss their differences.”

“Krugman has repeatedly emphasized his belief that deficit spending is among the few bulwarks against a reprise of the Great Depression and he hasn’t shied from pillorying those with a cooler attitude towards stimulus.”

Steinbrück has been among his favorite targets. Krugman has blasted Steinbrück, who took office hoping to balance the German budget and together with Chancellor Angela Merkel has withheld his support for further European or national stimulus packages, for his “know-nothing diatribes” and ” boneheadedness.” Krugman’s most painful insult of all may have been his suggestion that the criticisms of “crass Keynesianism” offered by Steinbrück, a member of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party, most closely resemble the thinking of America’s Republican Party.

Why the invite? Where’s Steinbrück’s Tutonic spirit? And what arrogance Krugman evinces. Even if his “crass Keynesianism” was correct, which it isn’t (neither is Keynesiansim merely “crass”; it’s criminal)–what about respecting the sovereignty of strangers? In their misguided arrogance, Dems and Republicans are of a piece.

What’s more, neither foolish faction has grasped that America is no longer a super power, able to lord it over the rest.

King Krugman Cross With German 'Know-Nothing'

Democrats, Europe, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Political Economy, Republicans

Or as I dubbed the scolded Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück: “The German who’s really an Austrian … economist.”

Reports Spiegel Online:

“Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has blasted Germany’s Peer Steinbrück for his resistance to economic stimulus spending. Now the ‘boneheaded,’ ‘know-nothing’ finance minister has sent Krugman an invitation to come to Berlin to discuss their differences.”

“Krugman has repeatedly emphasized his belief that deficit spending is among the few bulwarks against a reprise of the Great Depression and he hasn’t shied from pillorying those with a cooler attitude towards stimulus.”

Steinbrück has been among his favorite targets. Krugman has blasted Steinbrück, who took office hoping to balance the German budget and together with Chancellor Angela Merkel has withheld his support for further European or national stimulus packages, for his “know-nothing diatribes” and ” boneheadedness.” Krugman’s most painful insult of all may have been his suggestion that the criticisms of “crass Keynesianism” offered by Steinbrück, a member of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party, most closely resemble the thinking of America’s Republican Party.

Why the invite? Where’s Steinbrück’s Tutonic spirit? And what arrogance Krugman evinces. Even if his “crass Keynesianism” was correct, which it isn’t (neither is Keynesiansim merely “crass”; it’s criminal)–what about respecting the sovereignty of strangers? In their misguided arrogance, Dems and Republicans are of a piece.

What’s more, neither foolish faction has grasped that America is no longer a super power, able to lord it over the rest.