A week or so back the New York Times busted a big one, In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money. “New York’s Hasidic Jewish religious schools have benefited from $1 billion in government funding in the last four years but are unaccountable to outside oversight” ran the subhead. Well, over at Mosaic,…
Tag: New York City
Paul Krugman: A limousine liberal takes a walk
In his latest newsletter, which, as I keep repeating, is in itself a refutation of Friedmanite “No Free Lunch” gospel, Paul Krugman takes us on a walking tour of the Big Apple, beginning with this paragraph: Full disclosure: I’m one of those privileged New Yorkers who decamped to the suburbs during the worst of the…
Takes, short and not so short
Nancy Pelosi is invisible, says George F. Will In a not bad considering column, George F. Will urges congressional Democrats to “temper their enthusiasm for impeachment with lucidity”, listening to words of wisdom from others, including Greg Weiner, “Madison scholar par excellence” and author of a new book that Mr. Will has either read or…
New York City to Amazon: Drop Dead
In a better universe than ours—there must be one—the provincial New York politicians and union leaders who cut off not their own noses but that of the city’s poor, and (to thoroughly manhandle the metaphor) not to spite their faces but to protect their power, would be punished—very indirectly—by a slow decline in the Great…
Hey, Kevin D. Williamson! You’re a total idiot!
Almost exactly a year ago, I riffed on the idiocy of National Review “roving correspondent” Kevin D. Williamson, who was moaning and groaning about New York “sliding back into pre-Giuliani chaos”—pointing out how Kevie D’s “analysis” got the facts so wrong in so many ways. Well, another year has passed, under Kevin’s least favorite mayor…
Kevin D. Williamson, last seen frothing and lying, wildly
Poor Kevin D. Williamson, the National Review’s “roving correspondent”! He tries to do good, but he just can’t help lying his damn ass off whenever he comes near a Democrat. Kevie D. has a post up at the NR, telling Ted Cruz that a lot of decent folks live in New York City, and maybe…
Alan Vanneman visits the world’s most notorious jazz club
That should be “visited 45 years ago,” because that’s when it happened. I recently came across an article in Jazz Times that revisited the memory of Slugs, a club on the lower East Side that was, according to James Gavin, “jazz’s most notorious nightclub, the gates of the underworld.” “[N]ight fell, and the unlit streets…
New York City cops, fearing, not for their lives, but for their jobs
For more than twenty years, ever since the latter part of David Dinkins’ administration in the early nineties, crime has been declining in New York City. With fewer and fewer real criminals to catch, the New York City Police Department was starting to get nervous. Can things be “too quiet”? You bet your ass! The…
Bill de Blasio, putting his worst foot forward
“The only way to prepare a people for the exercise of political power is to give it to them,” remarked English historian Thomas Babington Macauley.* Which means that it’s a good thing for New York City’s liberals, after enduring twenty long years of authoritarian, neo-con or neo-liberal rule, are back in power once more. As…