by Henry Oliner | Aug 5, 2021 | Politics, Science
From Charles Cooke at National Review, COVID-19 Has Given Us Progressivism Unleashed: Mercifully, this is not how governments behave when the issue is travel, plumbing, or beans. In the case of COVID, however, it absolutely has been. Since the pandemic started, we...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 24, 2021 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
The language of the early progressives often expressed a ‘general will’ or the ‘will of the people’. This concept took exception to the Constitution’s focus on individual and natural rights. The framers often spoke of minority rights...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 23, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Ronald Pestritto has a wonderful new book, America Transformed, with a comprehensive look at the roots of progressivism and its legacy. A central part of his thesis is the progressive rejection of the constitutional principles embedded by the framers. For Wilson, the...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 22, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Political conditions today look similar to the dawn of progressivism. The original Progressive Era (1900-1920) addressed the concentration of economic power which threatened to influence the exercise of political power. The disparity in wealth on conspicuous display...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 5, 2020 | Economics, Taxes
The Great Tax Wars by Steven Weisman (2002) is a history of the establishment of the income tax in America. It is very well written, very readable and an excellent component of the development of the progressive political movement. We take the income tax for granted,...
