September 5th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Education, Markets and Privatization, Welfare and Other Social
Menu The American Conservative Logo Subscribe POLITICS The Democrats and Labor The Democratic Party was once the party of labor. That has changed. TheAmericanConservativeOnline George Liebmann Sep 4, 2023 12:01 AM Labor Day was once a sacred day on the Democratic Party calendar, commemorated by massive demonstrations in Detroit—the home of the UAW, the Reuther […]
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 […]
August 2nd, 2023
Category: Budget, Economic Regulation, Efficiency in Government, Fiscal, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Regulation, Welfare and Other Social
The American Conservative Justice Kagan’s Apostasy The judiciary abdicates its duty when it tolerates broad-ranging executive “emergency powers.” George Liebmann Aug 2, 2023 12:01 AM Supreme Court–watchers who try to see beyond the moment have frequently perceived Justice Elena Kagan as a future chief justice. She comes from a family of civil servants and is […]
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 20th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, Welfare and Other Social
On Centralized and De-Centralized Federal Courts Constitutional litigation should be more rare, and should involved fully developed and not assumed facts. George Liebmann,TheAmericanConservativeOnline Jul 20, 2023 12:01 AM Today’s discourse about legal issues is characterized by two phenomena: partisan polarization and indifference to history. Recent comments on the decision of Judge Terry Doughty in the […]
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 […]
February 19th, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Health Care, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
Why are Maryland Dems so jubilant about expanding abortion access? | READER COMMENTARY For The Baltimore Sun • Feb 16, 2023 at 11:10 am by George Liebmann State constitutional abortion amendment a ‘political mobilizing device’ for Dems Maryland has a liberal abortion law, unaffected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s […]
February 1st, 2023
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Welfare and Other Social
The American Conservative Online An End to Leveling Down Many well-intentioned people defend the affirmative action regime despite its visible consequences. George Liebmann Feb 1, 2023 12:01 AM The affirmative action cases pending before the Supreme Court will undoubtedly produce an uproar—before and after the court’s decision—comparable to that accompanying the Dobbs abortion case. The […]