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 | Jul 21, 2015 | Foreign policy, Politics
In 1941 Senator Harry Truman made a comment in The New York Times, “if we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.” It may have been reasonable to dismiss...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 17, 2014 | Politics
Politics in the Modest Age by Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal Why are we talking about Harry Truman? You know. We live in a time when politicians relentlessly enrich themselves. We are awed and horrified by the wealth they accumulate, by their use of...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 7, 2013 | Politics
Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal, The IRS Can’t Plead Incompetence, 6/6/13 Excerpts: If the agency didn’t know what it was doing, it wouldn’t have done it so well. In March 2012, the organization, which argues the case for traditional...
by Henry Oliner | May 17, 2011 | Philosophy
I have found that the claim to intellectual brilliance may the weakest, maybe the most dangerous reason to select a political leader. I recall Oprah Winfrey announcing that we should not vote for Obama because he is black but because he is brilliant. It made me want...
