May 2nd, 2017
Category: Culture Wars, Drugs, Education, Job Training, Regulation, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-populist-agenda-eleven-suggestions/ A Populist Agenda? Eleven Suggestions by George W. Liebmann President Trump’s victory has been ascribed to a recognition on his part, and that of Steven Bannon, that identity politics was a game that any number can play. Alternatively, it has been ascribed to their recognition of three social deficits: 1) trade-induced unemployment, especially […]
September 18th, 2016
Category: Culture Wars, Drugs, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-deplorables-defense-20160914-story.html
August 18th, 2016
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Welfare and Other Social
Gleichschaltung–American Style by George W. Liebmann Gleiichschaltung was the process by which the new Nazi regime in Germany subordinated to itself every independent organism in the German state–the Prussian police (1932, under the Papen government), the political parties, federal states, labor unions, universities and Protestant churches (1933), the Army (1934). The underlying purpose was set […]
August 16th, 2016
Category: Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
1920 Revisited? by George W. Liebmann Many Americans are bemused by the success of a candidate who has mastered the fascist speaking techniques described by the sociologist David Riesman in 1942: “The violence and daring of the verbal onslaughts exercise a great appeal over the imagination of lower middle-class folk who live insipid and anxious […]
August 25th, 2015
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The state of the parties By George W. Liebmann Baltimore Sun Online AUGUST 21, 2015, 10:17 AM Twenty–five years ago, an eminent legal scholar, the late Philip Kurland, suggested that the tone of American politics was reminiscent of that in inter-war continental Europe. Democrats devote themselves to appeals on lines of race, gender, and nationality. […]
May 11th, 2015
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Education, Job Training, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Baltimore’s Problems–And the Nation’s by George W. Liebmann According to the President and the media, the disturbances here are the product of gratuitous police brutality, the elimination of which is “the great civil rights cause of our generation.” This agenda is one with which the civil rights establishment is comfortable. But, as Arthur Schlesinger pointed […]
March 23rd, 2015
Category: Culture Wars, Miscellaneous, Religion, Society/Family/Community/Religion, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
“Confirm Thy Soul in Self-Control, Thy Liberty in Law” from M. Pearlstein (ed.), Fragmented Families and Silence of the Faithful (2015) By George W. Liebmann In addressing the problems presented by fragmented families, religious institutions must first strengthen themselves. There was a time when the ministry was considered one of the three great learned professions, […]
January 12th, 2015
Category: Culture Wars, Drugs, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The Feds, the States and the Controlled Substances Act How exactly is Colorado undermining federal law? Nothing requires a state to make marijuana illegal. Wall Street Journal January 12, 2015 To the Editor: Maryland, under Gov. Albert Ritchie, steadfastly refused to prohibit alcohol sales throughout Prohibition, and Al Smith’s New York repealed its prohibition […]
August 6th, 2014
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
O’Malley’s latest ‘pop’ issue – baltimoresun.com Maryland’s governor has proposed that undocumented child immigrants should be placed in foster care By George W. Liebmann 1:31 p.m. EDT, August 6, 2014 O’Malley takes on another ‘pop’ issue [Commentary] Gov. Martin O’Malley, a presidential hopeful, has taken on yet another “pop issue,” proposing that we provide foster […]
October 23rd, 2013
Category: Culture Wars, Publications, Religion, Society/Family/Community/Religion, Welfare and Other Social
Published on Center of the American Experiment (http://www.americanexperiment.org) Home > Issues > Culture & Religion > Not Liberals, Not Tea Partiers, nor the Religious Right Not Liberals, Not Tea Partiers, nor the Religious Right Culture & Religion Social Policy By George Liebmann [1]October 11, 2012Fragmented Families and Splintered Classes: A Symposium [2] [3] […]
