“My father’s skin is in those pharmaceutical companies.”
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Erich J. Prince
Erich J. Prince is the editor of Merion West. Erich has contributed to a variety of publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Hartford Courant, The News & Observer, the Orlando Sentinel, and The Hill. He studied political science at Yale, completing his thesis on polarization in the United States Congress.
Category: The Left
Holmesburg: Calling for an Apology from the City of Philadelphia
Why Is This Not Enough?
“Jackson was out walking on his property in Kansas one spring day and called Jensen with a simple question: ‘Why is this not enough?'”
On Finland’s Memorandum with Turkey
“Finns should decide their own fate. Their pact with Turkey signals the opposite.”
On Cultural Poverty
“Similarly, we should understand the notion of greater cultural wealth in connection with greater cultural equality.”
Review: “Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel” by Domenico Losurdo
“First published in Italy, [Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel] has finally been translated into English by Gregor Benton and released as part of the Historical Materialism Book Series with Haymarket Books.”
Why the Left Is Accepting Finnish NATO Membership
“With that said, however, as a country with a 70-year commitment to welfarism, it would not be desirable to substitute this for Russia’s brand of plutocratic capitalism.”
Woke Culture Isn’t Nihilistic
“If the woke activists who are willing to wake up at 5:00 am to march for racial justice are nihilistic, they sure seem to find nihilism plenty meaningful and inspiring.”
Do David Brooks and the New Right Share Common Threads?
“The general public—and not the elite—is, in fact, the primary obstacle to the New Right’s political project.”
Review: Michael Millerman’s “Beginning with Heidegger: Strauss, Rorty, Derrida, Dugin and the Philosophical Constitution of the Political”
“However, its veneration of far-right thinking (sometimes qualified but always in the most intellectualized vein) undermines its claims to genuine seriousness.”
Dwight Evans: The VICTIM Act and Combating Crime
“No one is exempt from being a victim of some sort of crime. And it’s very appropriate that I use that title [of victim] in terms of the VICTIM Act.”
Who Will Guard the Guardians: Dilemmas of Policing
“Policing needs to be seen as a profession to whose ranks people of every class might plausibly aspire.”
Keeping Wounds Green
“In the aftermath of the fiasco that was the Fall of Kabul, it was predictable that American commentators would detect a mirroring effect of the Afghan loss on political crises in the United States.”
Excerpt: “Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency”
“The End of Suburbia lays out the argument that with oil production peaking somewhere around 2027–28, and from then on heading into a steep decline, the living standards of those in suburbia will decline also.”
The Queens on the Throne of Kings
“Presiding over a declining empire is more arduous than presiding over one that is rising.”
Anne Kim: The AP Exam and the Standardized Testing Debate
“I think the downside of going test-optional, the downside of ignoring what assessments tell you, means that you might end up ignoring the underlying structural problems and never fixing the inequities.”
