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Showing posts with label new progressivism. Show all posts
Friday, September 10, 2010

Leo Strauss, American Ethical Decline and Aristotle's Highest Hope

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I was just reading Leo Strauss's magnificent Natural Right and History .  Strauss is a first rate thinker, on a par with the great liber...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

The Coming Crisis of Legitimacy in American Government

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Legitimacy refers to a concurrence of belief. In American government and politics, political legitimacy has been associated with the Constit...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Caroline Kennedy and the Progressive Hoax

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"Progressivism" is the idea that government can "solve problems" that politicians, academic "experts" and ...
Thursday, October 2, 2008

19th Century Innovation in David Ames Wells's Recent Economic Changes

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David Ames Wells, a 19th century engineer and economist, was chairman of the national revenue commission under President Abraham Lincoln and...
Monday, August 4, 2008

The Progressives' Sleight of Hand

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In the nineteenth century, "progress" meant technological and economic progress. Whig economists like Henry Carey believed in prog...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Herbert Clark Hoover on Twentieth Century Human Resource Management

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In most standard treatments of twentieth century history such as Louis Hartz's Liberal Tradition in America Herbert Hoover is painted a...
Friday, May 2, 2008

Herbert Hoover as the Pardigmatic Progressive-liberal

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Most people who have not read a biography of Herbert Hoover do not know that he was among the most assertive of the Progressives, and in man...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Progressivism and Globalization

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In passing the Federal Trade Commission and Clayton Acts, which supplemented the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commissi...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Failure of Progressivism

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Writing in the tradition of John Dewey's progressivism, Peter Levine and others have argued that deliberation and democracy are key valu...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Review of Nancy Cohen's Reconstruction of American Liberalism 1865-1914

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Nancy Cohen. The Reconstruction of American Liberalism 1865-1914. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 318 pages. Nancy C...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Why Do US Citizens Vote?

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The US Census Bureau published a study in 2000 tracking voting behavior in non-presidential election years from 1966 to 1998. The percentag...