Category Archives: history
New Heroes vs. Old
Today, we tend to think of John D. Rockefeller as just one of those famous rich people. But Rockefeller didn’t just “happen to have money.” How he got rich is the real story– and it is a story whose implications reach far beyond that one particular individual. Continue reading
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Liberalism: An Autopsy
In the tumultuous history of postwar American liberalism, there has been a slow but steady decline of which liberals have been steadfastly oblivious. The heirs of the New Deal are down to around 20% of the electorate, according to recent Gallup polls. Conservatives account for 42% of the vote, and in the recent election the independents, the second most numerous group at 29% of the electorate, broke the conservatives’ way. They were alarmed by the deficit. They will be alarmed for a long time. Continue reading
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Obama the Great?
If the Siena Poll proves anything, it’s the folly of trusting “presidential scholars” to make objective judgments about presidents. Continue reading
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The Lunacy of Our Retreat from Space
Next week marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. We say we will return in 2020. But that promise was made by a previous president, and this president has defined himself as the antimatter to George Bush. Continue reading
The Obsolete New York Model
Where a tax-eating majority votes itself a permanent income Continue reading
McNamara and the Liberals' War
He deserves better from his liberal critics, since his real misfortune was to be the architect of their failed visions. Continue reading
