Justin Katz
Progressive state representative Enrique Sanchez is entirely wrong, here: Housing is a store of value. People will put up their own money for their own homes and for investment properties. If they’re not doing so — especially as the demonstrable value climbs and climbs — then government is doing something wrong to prevent it. This…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the rot and corruption of progressive-dominated Northeastern institutions.
Maybe I’m getting old and crotchety, but these performances just seem so silly, lately: They’re basically elitists passing through on their way to lives of privilege and entitlement, yet we act simultaneously as if they’ve got some long-standing right to dictate the actions of the institutions and that those institutions’ highest purpose is to give…
People just don’t want to find ways to live together, do they? (We should try objective government.)
Silly and local as it is, this is one of those stories that makes me despair for the future: A few years ago, some folks petitioned for Tiverton to give some land next to the library to a group that wanted to put together a dog park. People using it are supposed to park across…
This will look familiar to anybody with even a passing familiarity with the history of the Twentieth Century: Leftists are constantly provoking and agitating the public in their lust for power, and eventually people rebel, sometimes while being driven into the arms of the Far Right in an enemy-of-my-enemy way. Socialism is a divisive, Satanic…
That’s a deliberately provocative statement, but it points to a common error in our thinking. When aspects of our culture strike us as bad, or at least wrong, we tend to think of them as lingering shadows from our benighted past. We see more clearly these days, right? But some of those things — maybe…
We’re descending to a place, in the United States and Rhode Island, in which controversy is not permitted over certain subjects, as Erika Sanzi points out: Of course, several trends probably all come together. Media outlets don’t have the business model to fund all that they used to, and most journalists don’t have the legal…
It’s strange to note, but Providence Journal political reporter Kathy Gregg got some heat from others in the local media (specifically from the Boston Globe) for writing this: The political flap erupted a week after Cicilline – a leader in the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump – told the Boston Globe and more recently a…
Ian Donnis tweeted, in October, some poll results from the University of Rhode Island that raise an perennially interesting point: Note that “most respondents favor increased state-level spending on education, housing, infrastructure, and aid to the poor. 73% want government “investment” in “blue economy initiatives like offshore wind.” Yet, those with “a great deal” or…
John DePetro and Justin Katz challenge the common wisdom in RI government, media, and higher education.