RE:A Fascist America In 10 Easy Steps
…Jon Ston, you’re forgetting that Hitler, upon gaining power and forcing through the Enabling Act granting him ‘emergency powers’ as a dictator, never really did so with anything more than a slim popular mandate. His ...
May
06
2007
Little More Than A Holding Operation (?)
Regarded by historian Carl Degler as a “revolution” in which “The American people…abandoned, once and for all, the doctrine of laissez faire”, the extent to which the New Deal constituted a change, rather than an ...
Mar
01
2007
To What Extent Were Republican Policies Responsible for the 1920s Boom, and the 1930s Bust?
The Republican’s free-market approach to economics was a double edged sword. The almost zealous refusal of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, and their Congress to intervene in the affairs of business undoubtedly provided innovators and entrepreneurs ...
Nov
09
2006