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, […]
May 25th, 2018
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, Religion, State and Local Politics
REMARKS OF GEORGE W. LIEBMANN BEFORE THE MENCKEN SOCIETY, AT THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MENCKEN DAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2017 MENCKEN ON CHURCH AND STATE I am honored to be asked to deliver this talk, but in some measure your presence here is due to false advertising. I am a lawyer who has written about constitutional […]
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
September 11th, 2017
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Religion
REMARKS OF GEORGE W. LIEBMANN BEFORE THE MENCKEN SOCIETY, AT THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MENCKEN DAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2017 MENCKEN ON CHURCH AND STATE I am honored to be asked to deliver this talk, but in some measure your presence here is due to false advertising. I am a lawyer who has written about constitutional […]
August 21st, 2017
Category: Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues, Miscellaneous, State and Local Politics, Urban Affairs
To the Editor: Once this City had a newspaperman, H. L. Mencken, who deemed it his duty to quench public passions, not to feed them, and who fought the Anti-Saloon League and Prohibition Amendment, lynching, and the Red Scare. Today it has editors who in at least six disgraceful editorials and without any fair discussion […]
August 16th, 2017
Category: Criminal Justice, Culture Wars, Judiciary and Legal Issues
On Morons: Executive and Legislative by George W. Liebmann As a Baltimore Republican who is a Child of Manhattan, I am twice a politically homeless person. Our President has told us that the first species is nonexistent, while New York County gave Governor Kasich his only county-level primary victory outside of Ohio. Not only Baltimoreans […]
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 […]
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 […]