by Henry Oliner | Sep 4, 2022 | Media, Politics
Forty years ago, we all got our news from three TV stations (CBS, ABC and NBC), the same local newspapers, and a small handful of magazines (Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News). A few would supplement their reading with The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal and...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 6, 2022 | Media
From Kevin Williams in National Review, Sarah Palin vs The New York Times: Our friends in the media who bemoan the rise of Donald Trump and Trump-style politics — which is to say, the politics of lies — have some penance of their own to do, because it was not...
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 | May 29, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at the Dispatch, Conservatism, Not Populism: In fairness to those who say “we live in a republic, not a democracy,” what they usually have in mind, I think, is that there are limits to democracy. That’s why we say we live in a “liberal democracy,”...
by Henry Oliner | May 13, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Historically Progressivism appears as an evolution of populism from the late 19th Century, but even though it sought many of the same ends progressivism used entirely different means, establishing a government by the elite manage populist goals. Hofstadter considers...
