From the New York Times over the weekend: It seems that “socialist” has supplanted “liberal” as the go-to slur among much of a conservative world confronting a one-two-three punch of bank bailouts, budget blowouts and stimulus bills. Right-leaning bloggers and talk radio hosts are wearing out the brickbat. Senate and House Republicans have been tripping […]
I’ve written before that one of the defining characteristics of liberals is that they take the role of luck in our lives seriously. Even with hard work, some people experience bad luck or bad timing. With an equivalent amount of hard work, some people just catch some breaks. Check out this post in which three […]
John Podesta is a co-chairman of Barack Obama’s transition team and the president and chief executive officer of the Center for American Progress, one of liberalism’s most effective organizations. He also has written a great book outlining liberalism/progressivism itself – The Power of Progress. I’m about half way through it. I’ve read a lot of […]
One reason I didn’t post for a long while was I was trying to follow all of the economic news and punditry as the economy melted down and cries of socialism came from the campaign. I felt it was a perfect time to hear people talking fervently about liberal versus conservative economics. I still have […]
Ah, Detroit’s automakers. I almost called this post “The Big Three,” but I stopped calling them that years ago. I covered the U.S. auto industry for several years while I worked at the public radio station in Ann Arbor, Mich. Initially, I felt I had to come up with a different moniker because Chrysler became […]
I know it’s been a couple of weeks since the election, and I’m not sure there’s much I could add to what has been said about it already. So, just a few thoughts. This is the first presidential election in which I felt that my guy won. Obviously Barack Obama is an impressive speaker, but […]
I spent a good part of yesterday just trying to wrap my head around everything that’s occurring in the financial world. I haven’t finished that yet, but I hope to tease out some conclusions on what this says for liberalism vs. conservatism. The conservative part is easy. “Free” markets? Ain’t no such thing, or at […]
Something else other than economics… This is a great short post from Matthew Yglesias: The Conservative Creed» James Robertson offered up this comment non-ironically this morning and I think it’s an excellent distillation of the conservative creed: Yet another thing Matt is unclear on: “Life isn’t Fair” For Matt in particular, we need to add […]
To follow up on my point about national security, here’s a start at economic policy and the cult of free market fundamentalism. P.S. As an FYI, here’s an organization called the Longview Institute. My understanding is that they are some folks that used to be at the Rockridge Institute with George Lakoff. They have an […]
Kind of expanding upon my last post, in which I made the point that liberals should be talking up and demonstrating liberal values, here is a great post about liberalism and national security. The author, Rand Beers, is dead right when he makes that point that liberals need to figure out what they stand for, […]
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