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The Nonpartisan Progressive
Bob Yentzer's blog is mostly about political economy and institutional failures. It gravitates toward economic policy issues where the data contradict a partisan narrative.
In Defense of Bezos Non-Endorsement
Bezos withheld the endorsement out of recognition that the Duopoly was too corrupt to serve the best interests of the American people.
Democrats Abandoned Equal Opportunity for the Political Payoff of Discrimination
The historical origin of the white working class’s alienation from the Democratic Party
Election Defeat Autopsy
the loss stems from the Party’s betrayal of the white working class in favor of identity politics and the ascendance of a college educated electorate.
The Social Costs of Labor Unions
The unaccounted social cost of unions is the collateral damage that union activity inflicts on third parties, without their consent.
The Diminishing Benefit of Labor Unions
Union density has fallen from 37% to 6% because the benefit workers can gain from joining a union has steadily diminished.
Democrats Demonstrate that Trump is Not the Only Saboteur of Democracy
The Democrats' record of disregard for democratic principles is at least as long, though not as extreme, as Trump's.
The HBCU Rabbit Hole: Public Funding for Racial Segregation
Why are taxpayers still bankrolling HBCUs that have failed to desegregate, as expected by law?
Higher-Ed Chooses Racial Tribalism over the Wisdom of Martin Luther King
On university campuses diversity doesn't mean integration, but rather a diversity of tribal enclaves that sabotage interracial contact.
Stop Impugning the Public's Low Approval of Biden's Performance
Against statistics that measure Americans' lived experience, their low opinion of Biden's performance is right on the mark.
Border Crisis: The Partisan Immigration Policy that Backfired
The Democrats' enticement of asylum seekers is the most recent incarnation of an ongoing strategy of victimhood cultivation.
Fair-weather Feminism
Fair-weather feminists demand gender equality when it pays, but not when it portends adversity and inconvenience, e.g., the draft.
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