by Henry Oliner | May 31, 2018 | Politics
Herbert Hoover wrote The Challenge to Liberty in 1934, in response to much of the regimentation of the New Deal. As background, Hoover thought the Great Depression to be the result of a global disorder leftover from the expenses and debt of WW I. FDR thought the...
by Henry Oliner | May 30, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From David Brooks at The New York Times, The Strange Failure of the Educated Elite: Once upon a time, white male Protestants ruled the roost. You got into a fancy school if your father had gone to the fancy school. You got a job at a white-shoe law firm or climbed the...
by Henry Oliner | May 28, 2018 | Politics
From the Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2018, Charles Kesler writes, Thinking About Trump: As it happens, the U.S. Constitution famously set up a series of institutional checks and balances to encourage ambitious men to vie against other ambitious men to serve the...
by Henry Oliner | May 25, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
From the Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2018, Charles Kesler writes, Thinking About Trump: When the original American populists organized the People’s Party in time for the 1892 election, their rallying cry was the people versus “the interests,” meaning the...
by Henry Oliner | May 24, 2018 | Politics
If I had passed out from shock last November on election day and just woke up I would observe a booming economy and stock market, a strong dollar, a substantial tax cut, corporations repatriating billions of dollars, record low unemployment, the lowest black...
