by Henry Oliner | Oct 24, 2024 | Politics
Given everything that has been thrown at Trump- two impeachments, four major indictments and convictions, mass defections from establishment Republicans, widely brandished as a fascist, and a virulently hostile media- how is he still even close to victory? This is an...
by Henry Oliner | May 13, 2023 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch (subscription highly recommended) The Old Deal: It’s also deeply and richly ironic that the new pro-life New Dealers are constantly parroting left-wing radical talking points about “empire” and the “military industrial complex”...
by Henry Oliner | May 7, 2023 | Taxes
From FEE, Myths of the New Deal: In 1929, the income tax only affected the top 2 percent of earners; they paid almost $1.1 billion in income taxes that year. Excise taxes, which were mainly imposed on tobacco, were less than half that, or $539 million. In other words,...
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 11, 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...
