Words have meanings that we use to describe, navigate and refer to objective reality. In Quillette, Michael Robillard argues that our shared, real world dissolves before ideologies that demand linguistic accommodation and, as objective truth recedes, spawn their own priestly caste of magical people who “speak all of reality into existence.”
Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.
