March 31st, 2020
Category: Criminal Justice, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Regulation, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
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.” […]
February 28th, 2020
Category: Culture Wars, Education, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Welfare and Other Social
The Unintended Consequences of Mainstreaming By George W. Liebmann Anyone assessing the very appropriate questions posed by the organizers of this symposium should focus on an underappreciated piece of federal legislation: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, passed during the first Bush administration. While the disabilities act for adults was a humane measure […]
February 14th, 2019
Category: Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
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 […]
January 28th, 2019
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, State and Local Politics, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
Epidemics of Ideas By George Liebmann The greatest of American judges, Learned Hand, warned of Americans’ susceptibility to epidemics of ideas. His concerns about media concentration led him to impose public utility standards on the Associated Press in a famous antitrust case in recognition of the non-economic interests at stake. Judge Robert Bork and his […]
January 1st, 2019
Category: Culture Wars, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
The Secular Case for Abortion Restrictions by George W. Liebmann The 45 years that have elapsed since Roe v. Wade have seen no diminution of the abortion controversy. Laurence Tribe, Roe’s only academic defender at the time of its rendition has assured us that it is “a clash of absolutes.” The absolutes are Justice Kennedy’s […]
January 1st, 2019
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Economic Regulation, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Regulation, The Right, Urban Affairs, Welfare and Other Social
A Tale of Two Commissions by George Liebmann Those amazed by the parlous state of today’s Democratic Party can find its roots in the fate of two national commission reports of twenty years ago. National commission reports are not usually brought by the stork. These bodies are usually created by Presidents for their own purposes. […]
November 10th, 2018
Category: Culture Wars, Drugs, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion, Welfare and Other Social
A Sense of Proportion by George W. Liebmann The Democratic Party is distinguished by its almost exclusive focus on identity politics. Its Republican adversaries offer opposition to any tax increases and ritualistic nationalism. The contending forces have in common the absence of any sense of proportion. Consider immigration. One faction envisages closed borders, mass deportations, […]
December 3rd, 2017
Category: Culture Wars, Miscellaneous, Religion, Welfare and Other Social
G. Liebmann, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americas-paramount-foreign-policy-goal-minimizing-refugees/ www.theamericanconservative.com,December 1, 2017
July 25th, 2017
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, The Right, Welfare and Other Social
RIP: Simone Veil: More Than a French Feminist by George W. Liebmann theamericanconservative.com, July 24,2017 The recent death of Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor who as French Health Minister in the centrist Gisgard d’Estaing government was the sponsor of a liberalizing French abortion law, and who thereafter was the first President of the European […]
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 […]