On this episode of Words & Numbers, Polyhymnia’s James R. Harrigan and Senior Fellow Antony Davies take a hard look at partisanship and what people believe. They conclude that it is not a matter of left v. right, nor is it Democrat v. Republican. It’s the ruling class v. all of the rest of us. …
Polyhymnia Senior Fellow Jay Nordlinger interviews Gregg Nunziata, the executive director of SRL—the Society for the Rule of Law. Nunziata worked in the Justice Department. And for the Senate Judiciary Committee. And for the Senate Republican Policy Committee. And for Senator Marco Rubio. And so on. He was in the heart of the Republican legal …
After a four-week hiatus, Polymnia’s @JamesRHarrigan and Senior Fellow @antonydavies are back with episode 501 of Words & Numbers, wherein they think about four weeks’ worth of backed-up nonsense, President Trump’s leaning all over the Supreme Court during oral arguments of the birthright citizenship case, Congress’s abdication of its constitutional duties, the newly created “Guindex,” …
Polyhymnia’s @JamesRHarrigan recently joined Josh Martens on Good Morning Liberty to discuss what, if anything, we owe one another as members of society. Anarchists love to answer this question with “Nothing!” before moving on. Marxists, on the other hand, are more inclined to answer “Everything!” So what is the right answer? Finding it is trickier …
Polyhymnia COO, James R. Harrigan, joins Max Borders on Underthrow to discuss international things, including recent events in Iran and Venezuela. There’s no way of knowing where any of this is going to end up, but things are trending in a direction for now. https://underthrow.substack.com/p/death-to-dictators-iran-venezuela
Richard Lorenc writes in the Boston Herald: “Although political conflict is inevitable, we each have the power to steer disagreements away from name-calling and rhetorical head-butting. If we want the activists and politicians to behave differently, the citizens need to behave differently as well.” Amen. And nothing will change until the citizens demand better, which …
Blake Scott Ball has done us the honor of becoming a fellow at Polyhymnia. You can get to know him a little bit here. As it turns out, he is a pretty interesting and smart guy. We’re happy to have him on board, and you will be glad to meet him. https://hvilleblast.com/charlie-brown-una-blake-scott-ball/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOO07FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeQh8Z7O1XCWYHB2syALKdC2DzqAKSI4RhPnG0K5pyXHRiIy0yfrWw04RrMEA_aem_ytsJxALTtgfE9ESZfimcwQ
Apple TV+ subscribers now have the opportunity to peer into the complex mind of filmmaker Martin Scorcese in a five-part docuseries. And readers now have the opportunity to see what Rebecca Miller learned as she made Mr. Scorcese. “He talks a lot about an obligation to tap into a truth about human beings. And that’s …
Polyhymnia Chief Operating Officer James R. Harrigan and economist Antony Davies discuss the two most important sentences in history, one political and philosophical, the other commercial. These two sentences, taken together, provide the bedrock of Western life and have improved the fortunes of man everywhere they have been embraced. And in the end, it all …
Polyhymnia Senior Fellow Jay Nordlinger joins John Daly on the DalyExpress podcast to discuss, among other things, the Renew Democracy Initiative, free speech consistency, Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, the Young Republicans chat controversy, and, of all things, public restrooms? You can have a look at the full interview here. https://www.bernardgoldberg.com/p/jay-nordlinger-on-free-speech-consistency
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