“For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.” MenWorldShouldUniversePolicyCapableCornersReachingForeign PolicyBullyPremisesCorners Of The WorldUs Foreign Policy Author:Ilana Mercer
“Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.” ThinkingWritingTwoAgeLinesPartyKeysBalanceProfessionStrikesIdiotMediocrityKey To SuccessCognitiveConsonanceWriting And Thinking Author:Ilana Mercer
“The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).” WarRepublicanFingersConvictionDamageShakesFistsOnly TimeDelayedCollateralCollateral Damage Author:Ilana Mercer
“But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?” HumansGovernmentSpiritAnimalEconomicWorstHuman NatureDemandSpendingAppealsConsumptionDeficitGovernment SpendingProtectionismSpendthriftAnimal SpiritsKeynesianism Author:Ilana Mercer
“The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.” BigsRealityMediaStupidIdeologyReportsCollectivesBites Author:Ilana Mercer
“Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.” MatterPoliticalTurnsFightingLeftBitsIssuesBloodGayPreparedProsperityLibertarianBigotryShedTurn-onLeftistsOperatorsWedgesFighting For Freedom Author:Ilana Mercer
“The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.” MenGovernmentGrowsNiceImagineChecksBranchesAmendmentsFourthImagine ThatNaiveFourth AmendmentNice Man Author:Ilana Mercer
“Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.” ThinkingRunningPoliticalWatchesRepublicanIntelligentDemocraticDialogueRacingRatsGiverOrthodoxyLabsMazes Author:Ilana Mercer
“Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.” IfsKnowsMenDoeAmericaCourageousEconomistFrame Of ReferenceCourageous ManVon Mises Author:Ilana Mercer
“The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.” FeministEconomistPropositionsImpossibilityVon Mises Author:Ilana Mercer