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Obama and the Eternal Return
The New Editor — Roger Kimball: If the pundits are to be believed, the American people are just about to elect as President a man who espouses in concentrated form just about every bad, discredited, and exploded social and economic idea of the last fifty years. ... What I find depressing about this–as, indeed, about the whole Obama juggernaut–is the extent to which it represents a return of bad ideas that have already been tried time and again, have failed and made people poorer and less stalwart, and yet seem poised to make a sorry comeback once again. I’ve written ...

Past Mistakes
TheOtherSideofKim Front Page — ... As sentient beings, we humans are supposed to be able to learn from our mistakes. Yet, it seems, despite all the lessons of history, we’re about to forget about all the shortcomings of socialism, and embark on yet another Great Experiment, at least according to Roger Kimball: ...

Obama’s Pretense
GayPatriot — ... In a more detailed piece, Roger Kimball finds “most depressing . . . is the extent to which [the whole Obama juggernaut] represents a return of bad ideas that have already been tried time and again, have failed and made people poorer and less stalwart, and yet seem poised to make a sorry comeback once again.“  In listing the taxes Obama plans to raise, Kimball holds that “Obama plans to resuscitate the welfare policies of the Great Society, but by stealth.” ...