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Showing posts with label mugwumps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mugwumps. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Thoughts on the Mugwumps

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I just sent the following email to a colleague who was talking about the Mugwumps. The Mugwumps were a group of elite Republicans who s...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

William Graham Sumner on Social Doctors

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"The amateur social doctors are like amateur physicians--they always begin with the question of remedies, and they go at this without a...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Elitism in American History

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Progressivism and social democracy are democratic liberal doctrines that introduce the possibility of an activist, authoritarian state that ...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Bernanke Discovers the Dollar

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The valiant New York Sun has printed my letter in its June 10th edition and online here : 'Bernanke Discovers the Dollar' Thank you...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Why Democrats and Republicans Are Mostly the Same: the Roosevelts

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The two Roosevelts were founders of post-modern progessivism. Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican who believed in a statist corporate syste...
Friday, February 15, 2008

David Ames Wells on Creative Destruction

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Joseph Schumpeter is generally cited as the economist who fashioned the concept of creative destruction in his book Capitalism , Socialism ...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Moralists or Pragmatists: The Mugwumps 1884-1900

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Mugwump Seth Low, last Mayor of Brooklyn, Mayor of New York City and President of Columbia University Gerald W. McFarland, editor. Moralists...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Individualist Ethics and Corporate Social Control

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The history of human resource management has evolved from an individualist/conflictual approach where wage cuts followed by strikes were com...

Toward an Aristotelian Moral Ubermensch

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In his >Mugwumps, Morals and Politics 1864-1920 Gerald McFarland writes (p. 147): " The consequences of the progressive perspective...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Gerald W. McFarland's Mugwumps, Morals and Politics, 1884-1920

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Gerald W. McFarland. Mugwumps, Morals and Politics 1884-1920. Amherst, Ma: University of Massachusetts Press, 1975. 291 pages. Gerald W. McF...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Libertarian Party Should Become a Voter Block Brokerage Organization

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I would like to bring a crucial point about strategy to the attention of Ron Paul voters, libertarians and especially members of the Liberta...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Democratic versus Achievement Motives in American History

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David M. Tucker. Mugwumps: Public Moralists of The Gilded Age. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1998. 139 pp. David M. Tucker...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

The Origins of Progressive Liberalism

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The modern progressive-liberal movement may be said to have its earliest origins in the presidential campaign of 1884 when the Independent R...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

John M. Dobson's Politics in the Gilded Age

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John M. Dobson. Politics in the Gilded Age: A New Perspective on Reform . New York: Prager Publishers. 1972. 200 pp. Professor John M. Dobso...
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