A "Socialism in one country" foreign policy?
E.J. Dionne reports that at a White House dinner with a group of historians this summer, Robert Dallek asserted that “war kills off great reform movements.” He cited World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the War in Vietnam. The message, of course, was that by escalating the war [...]
What’s In a Name? Well, Everything!
Shakespeare notwithstanding, a rose by any other name would not, in fact, smell as sweet; “seeing is believing” is a much less accurate saying than “believing is seeing” — especially in politics, the art of the image. “What a fool believes, he sees.”
The winner of the race to define one’s opponent typically wins the [...]
Stimulus Stimulates Nothing But Votes for Obama, As Intended
As in the case of Warner Todd Huston’s reminder of what FDR said about social security, it ain’t about “helping” anyone. It’s “politics all the way through”:
Of his Social Security program, Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that the whole thing had nothing to do with helping the aged. “They were politics all the way through,” [...]
America’s Policy Graveyard
Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires; healthcare is the
graveyard of policymakers. Yet Washington reformers are massing
again at the healthcare frontier. Like their predecessors, they
will march in with flags unfurled, bands blaring, and intentions
good. And like their predecessors, they believe they have it
right this [...]
Obama’s brave new world
In what serves as an excellent follow-up piece to our previous post titled “IBD: Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism, Powerline’s “Obama’s brave new deal” refers to the conclusion of Claremont Review of Books editor Charles Kesler’s review of the books and speeches of Barack Obama - that Obama is a serious and ambitious politician who has [...]
Obama’s brave new deal
Claremont Review of Books editor Charles Kesler sat down last summer to read the books and speeches of Barack Obama. Professor Kesler concluded that Obama is a serious and ambitious politician who has set about to engineer a transformative leftward shift in American politics and government. Professor Kesler set forth the conclusions [...]
