by Henry Oliner | Mar 7, 2018 | History, Politics
This excerpt is from The Opening of American Society (1985) by Robert Wiebe, referring to Andrew Jackson: “In two ways Jackson’s singular route to the White House freed him for the tasks ahead. First, a cunning man on the rise learned to create and dissolve his...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 29, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
from Rationalization: The Enemy of Integrity by Jonah Goldberg at National Review One of my intellectual peeves is the idea that 20th-century progressivism was primarily about a coherent set of principles. As I’ve written countless times, progressivism was primarily...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 4, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
I just completed Jon Meacham’s biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion. The most important action of Jackson delayed the Civil War. Jackson stood for Union solidarity when Calhoun and South Carolina supported nullification. Their call to action was aimed at The...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 27, 2016 | Politics, Progressivism
From The Atlantic, How American Politics Went Insane by Jonathan Rauch The Constitution makes no mention of many of the essential political structures that we take for granted, such as political parties and congressional committees. If the Constitution were all we...
