The Forgottten Man and Civil Liberty

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...

An Alliance of Victims and Experts

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...

The Forgotten Men

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...

Acid Pragmagtism

  “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...