Can Populism Be Liberal?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 25th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Can Populism Be Liberal?
Michael Lind, Salon
Is a Jackson revival under way? I'm referring not to the late King of Pop but to the 19th century populist president whom his opponents called “King Andrew.” According to Michael Barone, in the 2010 elections Republicans have a chance to knock Democrats out of as many as three dozen insecure congressional seats in “Jacksonian districts.”By itself, this would merely reinforce the identification of the Party Formerly Known as Lincoln's with the white South. But in a time of popular anger over banker bonuses and lobby-hobbled government, the themes of Jeffersonian…
ClimateGate: The Fix is In
Robert Tracinski, The Intellectual Activist
In early October, I covered a breaking story about evidence of corruption in the basic temperature records maintained by key scientific advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. Global warming “skeptics” had unearthed evidence that scientists at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at Britain's University of East Anglia had cherry-picked data to manufacture a “hockey stick” graph showing a dramatic-but illusory-runaway warming trend in the late 20th century.But now newer and much broader evidence has emerged that looks like it will break that scandal wide open….
Justice, The Chicago Way
Ronald Cass, RealClearPolitics
Chicago is known for a special brand of justice. Results are arranged first, and the show of getting there comes later. The same approach is associated with Chicago politics: figure out the number of votes needed for the right outcome, then find those votes (from voters dead or alive). While corruption isn't peculiar to Chicago 's courts or elections-and is only an episodic fixture even there- it colors the way Chicago government is seen by others.Now, the administration of the first Chicago resident to become President of the United States has brought a bit of Chicago to the…
