by Henry Oliner | Sep 29, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
The Republicans have become the party of the blue collar white male, a constituency that used to be solid blue. The problem is that this is not a dependable voter base. Trump’s success largely came from motivating this traditionally blue group to vote for him. ...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 20, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
The phrase Forgotten Man was made popular by FDR during the Depression but it has a very different meaning from how it was used by William Graham Sumner in 1884. William Voegeli covered this difference well in a review of Amity Shlaes book, The Great Society, in Not...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 15, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
The phrase Forgotten Man was made popular by FDR during the Depression but it has a very different meaning from how it was used by William Graham Sumner in 1884. William Voegeli covered this difference well in a review of Amity Shlaes book, The Great Society, in Not...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 13, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Amity Shlaes wrote bookends to the second progressive period with The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and Great Society: A New History. William Voegeli wrote an outstanding review of these books in The New Criterion in March of 2020 titled Not So...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 12, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Kimball quotes the German thinker Hans Blumenberg: “If there were an imminent final goal of history, then those who believe they know it and claim to promote its attainment would be legitimized in using all the others who do not know it . . . as a mere means.” Once...
