Wall Street Journal

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 318

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 30, 2018

This is the grave of Bernard Kilgore. Born in Albany, Indiana in 1908, Bernard Kilgore, who preferred to be called Barney, graduated from DePauw University. For whatever reason, DePauw, which I think of as a good but not exactly elite liberal arts school, had a...

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It’s Hard Out There For the 1 Percent

By Erik Loomis

On August 1, 2014

The Daily Capitalist urges us to understand the plight of the wealthy and how a visa glitch makes life so hard: In Washington, D.C., Mira Edmonds said her au pair's.

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Pinochet Nostalgia

By Erik Loomis

On July 5, 2013

The Wall Street Journal, openly pining for Augusto Pinochet: Mr. Obama also requested a review of U.S. aid to Egypt, but cutting that off now would be a mistake. Unpopular.

The Wall Street Journal editorial page and doublethink

By Paul Campos

In Uncategorized

On May 6, 2009

I doubt Pravda was ever more egregious.On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding...

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If We Don’t Contain the Communists, They’ll Soon be in Texas

By Robert Farley

On March 13, 2008

On Monday the Wall Street Journal recycled an editorial that conservatives have been using more or less since the late 1940s. The theme runs something like this: Democrats are threatening.