Philip Green

As Michael Kazin, the Co-Editor of Dissent has recently pointed out in a Times Op Ed there has always been cultural a civil war in the United States In that Op-Edh he points to the Scopes Trial of 1925 as emblematic of that war, pitting a largely rural population of Biblical believers against “urban liberalism.”…

To start at the beginning, in which all of Trump’s hatreds are harnessed and become the deeply sick raison d’etre of Republicans everywhere. Here, nothing needs to be added: everything that has to be known about them was vouchsafed to us this week by the worthless specimen of cowardice Jodi Ernst, who should be in…

1. That was the best political speech I’ve heard since…anyone. Barack, maybe. But there was really no one else. I was for her to begin with, after her take-down of Biden; then dropped her when she dropped out. Since then I’ve paid no attention to all those news clips about how she didn’t know what…

Part I: Treason During the latter stages of World War II, the American labor movement was divided sharply in two: on the one hand the old line craft unions, such as ladies’ garments and headgear, joined in the American Federation of Labor; on the other the unions attached to the newer mass industries: auto ,…

I’m not into making predictions, but at this point it’s fairly easy to predict not what is going to happen, but rather what has to happen to avoid what might otherwise be irremediable consequences. All commentators think the Republican Party is going to win back the House.  That will be pretty terrible in that the House leaders…