by Henry Oliner | Sep 15, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
The phrase Forgotten Man was made popular by FDR during the Depression but it has a very different meaning from how it was used by William Graham Sumner in 1884. William Voegeli covered this difference well in a review of Amity Shlaes book, The Great Society, in Not...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 13, 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...
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...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 9, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
I consider the Progressive evolution in three periods, punctuated by reactions. The first was from 1900-1920, ending with the landslide election of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The second period was from 1930-1980, ending with the landslide election of Ronald...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 2, 2020 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
“The result is an ideology that doesn’t know why it upholds and cherishes its ideas. And if you don’t know why you cherish your ideas, you’re going to have a hard time recognizing when it’s time to move on to something else. As William Voegeli puts it in his...
