December 28th, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Philanthropy
by George Liebmann Readers of the New York Times cannot fail to be impressed by its coverage of American school and college campus disturbances and demands. Any group of a half-dozen students composing a list of demands, whether at a private school like the Dalton School in New York, at Princeton, or in any smaller […]
December 28th, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Fiscal, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Philanthropy
The Mellon Foundation Goes Woke The nation’s largest supporter of the humanities has elevated politics over art, and sometimes forsakes the latter altogether. The American Conservative Online DECEMBER 28, 2020|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN AND ANDREW BALIO Not to be outdone by The New York Times‘ 1619 Project, the Mellon Foundation recently announced its appropriation of […]
December 19th, 2020
Category: Efficiency in Government, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Regulation
TheAmericanConservative Three Vested Interests A New Administration Should Assail Changes to America’s security clearance culture, document classification system, and economic sanctions regime are beyond due. DECEMBER 15, 2020 GEORGE LIEBMANN The new administration, like all its predecessors since the start of the Cold War, will perpetuate three features of Washington life that Americans have been […]
December 1st, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Markets and Privatization
The industry’s concentration doesn’t just have economic costs. It’s a disaster for our culture and it needs to be fought. DECEMBER 1, 2001,Theamericanconservative.com GEORGE LIEBMANN The proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster by the international media conglomerate Bertelsmann, treated as a foregone conclusion by most of the press, strikingly reveals the limitations of the “consumer […]
November 20th, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Philanthropy, State and Local Politics, The Right
Political foundations seek to “re-imagine” America’s monuments. A new Reece Committee is needed to stop them. The American Conservative NOVEMBER 20, 2020 GEORGE LIEBMANN Only the unobservant will be startled by the recent announcement by the Mellon Foundation of its appropriation of $250 million for a “Monuments Project: Building the Commemorative Landscape for the 21st […]
November 12th, 2020
Category: Corporate Welfare, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right
The Mixed Blessing Of Citizens United The ruling, deemed a success by many, has hurt conservatives horribly. Real reform can be found by looking to our past. The American Conservative NOVEMBER 11, 2020 Few are satisfied with the present state of American politics: a polarized House of Representatives and state legislatures, a presidential race in […]
November 6th, 2020
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The Washington Times > By George W. Liebmann – – Thursday, November 5, 2020 Perhaps one of the forgotten 4 million voters who supported Govs. Gary Johnson and William Weld despite the systematic disparagement of them by the mass media in 2016, and who was also a Republican for Biden may be permitted to suggest […]
November 3rd, 2020
Category: Criminal Justice, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Regulation, State and Local Politics, The Right
The American Conservative, November 3, 2020 NOVEMBER 3, 2020|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN It was refreshing to see the editors of the New York Times declare (“The Republican Party’s Supreme Court,” October 27): “The courts must not be in the position of resolving all of America’s political debates. But if Americans can agree on that, then […]
November 2nd, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Fiscal, Judiciary and Legal Issues, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Two little words Republicans can’t ignore when it comes to Trump: ‘stand by’ | COMMENTARY By GEORGE LIEBMANN FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN | NOV 02, 2020 AT 10:47 AM FILE – In this Sept. 26, 2020 file photo, members of the Proud Boys, including leader Enrique Tarrio, second from left, gesture and cheer on stage […]
October 27th, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Education, Fiscal, Judiciary and Legal Issues, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The American Conservative 2020 Presidential Symposium George Liebmann Means are more important than ends in the politics of free countries. As a bookseller’s son I had no difficulty in the last election in deciding that I would not vote for Donald Trump. I supported Johnson. Trump identified concerns: opposing “liberal imperialism” and its attendant refugee […]