by Henry Oliner | Apr 30, 2017 | Global Warming
from the Claremont Review of Books, The Church of Environmentalism In contrast to Klein’s dogmatism, Robert Nelson’s The New Holy Wars takes a measured, philosophical approach to the environment and the economy. A professor of public policy at the University of...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 27, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
The Challenge of Our Disruptive Era by Ben Sasse at National Review Industrialization brought a massive disruption. At the end of the Civil War, 86% of Americans still worked on the farm. By the end of World War II, 80 years later, 60% of Americans lived in cities....
by Henry Oliner | Apr 26, 2017 | History, Politics, Progressivism
by Henry Oliner The first Progressive Era from Teddy Roosevelt through Woodrow Wilson established the regulatory and administrative state and changed the nature of our government. It was tainted by an elitist view of race that used the science of Darwinism to justify...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 25, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
The Challenge of Our Disruptive Era by Ben Sasse at National Review I am a historian, and that usually means I’m a killjoy. When people say we’re at a unique moment in history, the historian’s job is to put things in perspective by pointing out that there is more...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 24, 2017 | Politics
O’Reilly, Ailes, and the Toxic Conservative-Celebrity Culture from David French at National Review What followed was a toxic culture of conservative celebrity, where the public elevated personalities more because of their pugnaciousness than anything else. Indeed, the...
