by Henry Oliner | Oct 8, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Arthur Schlesinger wrote The Age of Roosevelt in three volumes between 1956 and 1960. The first volume, The Crisis of the Old Order, addressed the national conditions that led to the election of Franklin Roosevelt. The Coming of the New Deal focused on the first two...
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...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 29, 2015 | Anti Semitism, History
From The Telegraph, Leftists become incandescent when reminded of the socialist roots of Nazism by Daniel Hannan Marx’s error, Hitler believed, had been to foster class war instead of national unity – to set workers against industrialists instead of conscripting both...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 21, 2012 | Politics, Uncategorized
The Right frequently calls the President a socialist? The left protests that it just isn’t true. Is it? Socialism, fascism and communism all share belief in some large degree in government control of the means of production. They all stand in opposition to...
