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Showing posts with label progressivism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progressivism. Show all posts
Monday, January 22, 2018

How Progressivism Destroyed Utica

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 Below is a picture of the population trend in Utica, NY from 1850 to the present. Unlike Buffalo, whose population peaked in 1950, right...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

The Racism of John R. Commons--And What It Says about Columbus Day

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Two guys on Facebook , Jeremy Horpedahl of the University of Central Arkansas and Phillip W. Magness of Berry College, sent me material th...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Long Live the Electoral College

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I favor the Electoral College. Direct democracy was a failure in Athens; it is a failure in the US. The American people are easily manipula...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Walter Weyl and the Escalation of American Mental Uniformity

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In the late nineteenth century the standardization of parts contributed to American competitiveness. That idea was taken further by the P...
Friday, February 12, 2016

De Tocqueville on Progressivism and Presidential Power

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I have been rereading Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America ; the translation is by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop.  It i...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Ivy League Schools and Progressivism

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William Deresiewicz critiques the performance of Ivy League colleges in The New Republic.   Herbert Croly, Walter Weyl, and Walter Lippmann ...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

No Consent of the Governed

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In early January we're about six months from July 4th, but recall Jefferson's and the Continental Congress's words written 236 y...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

The Enemy is Progressivism, Not Obama: Dinesh D'Souza's 2016

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I just saw 2016: Obama .  Dinesh D'Souza is right: Obama is a traitor.  Nevertheless, the film's lack of historical perspective is ...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Mercatus Institute Finds that New York Is the Least-Free State

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Dan Elmendorf of Redeemer Broadcasting sent me this video from the Mercatus Institute.  Prof. Will Ruger of Texas State University, San Marc...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

A Short History of Progressivism

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The Progressives claimed that they could expand government, but freedom's improvement in the standard of living and lessening of income ...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Miami Herald's Leonard Pitts Unschooled on Race and Conservatives

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Leonard Pitts, Jr. writes a spin piece in today's Seattle Times (h/t Adam Schmidt on Facebook).  Pitts  argues that African Americans ...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Progressivism as a Religion

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People often raise the question as to why progressives support failed ideas.  As well, many conservative non-Jews are aghast that left-wing ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Progressivism, Narcissism and Auguste Comte

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Auguste Comte was the founder of sociology . At least, he coined the terms sociology and social physics . Comte's life's work began...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Sustainability Is a Conservative Ideology

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The totalitarian left has long disingenuously misapplied words such as liberal , progressive , democratic and rights .  Liberal means a s...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

No Tax Compromise and the Demon Democracy

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Pamela Odell forwarded this petition to oppose the tax compromise.  The Tea Party's success with the  recent spending bill is a delightf...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Secession Party

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The Secession Party Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.* The United States of America has become too large and needs to be broken in two. As well, Ne...
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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Reflections on the BP Oil Disaster

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The issue before the nation is the BP oil disaster.  I do not watch television news but obtain snippets while in public places like my gym. ...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Polisphilia: A Modern Mental Disorder

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"Polisphilia" means love of the state.  During the age of Pericles in fifth century (BC) Athens, the new governmental form of demo...
Monday, March 1, 2010

Jewish Socialists Continue to Collaborate with the Holocaust

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I recently blogged on Hannah Arendt's discussion of Jews' cooperation with the German National Socialists in their own mass murder ...