August 5th, 2020
G. Liebmann, “Is America Losing Another Generation,”, Washington Times, August 4, 2020
The Secular Case for Abortion Restrictions
July 27th, 2020
The Washington Examiner OPINION The secular case for abortion restrictions by George W. Liebmann | July 27, 2020 12:00 AM Chief Justice John Roberts’s controlling opinion in the recent Louisiana abortion case June Medical has been widely viewed as a setback for opponents of abortion as a constitutional right. But in fact, it paves the […]
Tracing the epidemic of allegations of sexual misconduct
May 18th, 2020
Tracing the epidemic of allegations of sexual misconduct in today’s United States Regular Joe Biden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times By George Liebmann – – Sunday, May 17, 2020 ANALYSIS/OPINION: The #MeToo movement, like the flash mobs greeting the Trump administration’s announcement of immigration restrictions, are examples of an “epidemic of ideas” — a […]
Why Not the Best
April 30th, 2020
Why Not the Best? Washington Times, April 30, 2020 by George W. Liebmann These suggestions regarding the selection of the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee come from what might be considered a suspicious source: a registered Republican. To be sure, I have been unable to vote for my party’s nominee in the last four Presidential […]
Coronavirus is exposing national weaknesses we need to address
April 7th, 2020
Coronavirus is exposing national weaknesses that we need to address by George W. Liebmann | April 06, 2020 11:26 AM Some years ago, the British Thatcherite historian Correlli Barnett wrote a somewhat overwrought book called The Audit of War, pointing out that the advent of World War II revealed defects in British society — the class system, […]
Some Emergency Powers Need Congress’s OK
March 31st, 2020
Some Emergency Powers Need Congress’s OK by George W. Liebmann Regarding the suggestion by David B. Rivkin ‘Jr. and Charles Stimson in “A Constitutional Guide to Emergency Powers” (op-ed, March 20) that • “widespread noncompliance with federal quarantines and travel bans promulgated under the Public Health Service Act may qualify as an insurrection.” […]
Trump Won’t Be the Last President of His Kind
September 9th, 2019
The American Conservative, September 9, 2019 by George Liebmann It is fashionable for Americans and Europeans alike to think of Donald Trump as an aberration—a fluke thrown up by the obtuseness of an insulated ruling class for sponsoring an unattractive candidate like Hillary Clinton. Many believe that once the lessons of Trump are absorbed […]
Book Review: Richard Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
April 4th, 2019
Richard J. Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (London and Boston: Little, Brown, 2019, 785pp. by George W. Liebmann This is a massive biography of a economic historian whose popular fame rests on his having been made one of 65 Companions of Honour by the Queen while remaining a member of the Communist Party […]
The Filibuster: According to Robert Taft
February 14th, 2019
The Filibuster, According to Robert Taft by George W. Liebmann Public congressional approval ratings have rarely been above 20% since 2012 and currently stand at 15.3%. This is a result of the manifest inability of the Senate to enact significant legislation by reason of the three-fifths cloture rule. Speaking of filibusters in 1946, the then […]
The ‘Five Policemen’ Revisited
November 22nd, 2018
The “Five Policemen” Revisited by George W. Liebmann “THE PRESIDENT then turned to the third organization which he termed “The Four Policemen,” namely the Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain and China. This organization would have the power to deal immediately with any threat to the peace and any sudden emergency which requires this action. […]