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Month: December 2014

Valentine’s Day Carols? And Other Observations

  • Culture
December 25, 2014July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers. As usual, what Americans call ‘The Holidays’ is an odd mix, especially in the special music now played.  What are effectively Gospel carols [especially if they sing all […]

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Edward Kleinbard Says, Don’t Soak the Few and the Rich

  • Politics
December 22, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Edward Kleinbard, a professor at the University of Southern California, has pointed out that despite and in the face of extreme income inequality, not only is America’s tax system fairly ‘progressive’, its spending is fairly progressive in that the less […]

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Where in Southern California Could We Fit New Suburbs?

  • California
December 10, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

People like Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox have argued, to some extent rightly, that the majority of Americans prefer a suburban environment; and even the younger Millennial generation, willing to live in more urban places during their single and cohabiting years, […]

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If I Were Muslim: Why Do Muslims Hate Jews Nowadays?

  • Religion
December 3, 2014December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Our friend Hillel Fradkin has sent out a fascinating article on the relationship between Islam and German nationalism.  In two world wars both types of German nationalists, both the relatively mild sort of the Second Reich and the pathological ones […]

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