August 5th, 2023
Category: Economic Regulation, Job Training, Markets and Privatization, Regulation, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
George Liebmann To: The Democrats and Labor by George Liebmann It is time to consider the non-existent Labor Agenda of the anti_Trump Party. Doing so will convince the impartial that while the Republicans are vexed and encumbered by one man, the Democrats have almost entirely succumbed to an ideological epidemic When there was widespread unemployment […]
August 5th, 2023
Category: Education, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
www.calvertinstitute.org A New Affirmative Action by George Liebmann About a year ago, a major newspaper, mingling its editorial and news pages as is now usual, published charts showing flat Black enrollment at a number of major universities in an effort to influence the then-pending Supreme Court affirmative action litigation. There was no qualitative assessment including […]
July 21st, 2023
Category: Economic Regulation, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Markets and Privatization, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The American Conservative A Built-In Solution to America’s Housing Shortage Easing restrictions on accessory apartments will allow us to maximize the housing stock we already have. George Liebmann Jul 21, 2023 12:01 AM Thirty-three years ago, I published an article urging states and localities to relax zoning restrictions on accessory apartments and home occupations. After […]
July 6th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Dobbs Comes to Maryland The state and localities are wrestling with post-Roe realities. George Liebmann The AmericanConservativeOnlineJul 5, 2023 12:01 AM The Dobbs decision brought an end to the federal regime of abortion-on-demand, with only a vague “mental health” standard previously limiting third-trimester abortions. Abortions are no longer available with certainty. The screams that the […]
April 4th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Job Training, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Maryland’s Ill-Considered Jobs Program Maryland’s urban youth desperately need opportunities, and Governor Moore’s new program doesn’t deliver. George Liebmann,thyeamericanconservativeonline Apr 4, 2023 12:01 AM With great fanfare and much-sought national publicity, Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has unveiled a “a year of service” program for high school graduates. It amounts to a token program whose […]
January 22nd, 2023
Category: Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Publications, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Book Announcement- Amazon.com The Tafts by George W. Liebmann | Feb 26, 2023 Hardcover $28.95 Pre-order Price Guarantee. FREE delivery This title has not yet been released.
November 23rd, 2022
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Economic Regulation, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Congressional compromise: Republican modifications to a Democratic agenda could satisfy all | GUEST COMMENTARY By George Liebmann For The Baltimore Sun • Nov 21, 2022 at 10:58 am A simplistic Democratic wish list at the federal level would include: An assault weapons ban; Marijuana legalization; Amnesty for illegal residents of long standing; A $15 minimum […]
October 25th, 2022
Category: Education, Efficiency in Government, Markets and Privatization, Regulation, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Politics Foreign Affairs Culture 20th Anniversary Gala Account The Cooperative Route for Housing Development For real change to happen in the suburbs, developers and RCAs will need to work in tandem. The AmericanConservativeOnline,Oct 21, 2022 Change in the suburbs comes slowly. Public-sector inertia has long doomed schemes for housing, zoning, and local government reform, such […]
October 17th, 2022
Category: Blog, Budget, Corporate Welfare, Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Drugs, Economic Regulation, Education, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Gambling, Health Care, Job Training, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Markets and Privatization, Miscellaneous, Philanthropy, Regulation, Religion, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Book Announcement- JOURNAL OF TWO PLAGUE YEARS by George W. Liebmann This is a collection of 70 op-ed pieces appearing in the Baltimore Sun, The American Conservative Online, the Washington Examiner, Chronicles Online, the Washington Times, and the Calvert Institute website in the two years beginning with the presidential election of 2020. It reflects the […]
August 31st, 2022
Category: Corporate Welfare, Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Education, Efficiency in Government, Job Training, Markets and Privatization, Regulation, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
A Material Agenda for a New GOP The Democrats’ pivot to identity politics presents an opportunity for Republicans on economics. TheAmericanConservativeOnline, George Liebmann Aug 31, 2022 12:01 AM For half a century, “civil rights” organizations and the Democratic Party have worked hard at creating coalitions of the disaffected, ‘slicing and dicing’ the electorate along lines […]