Twelve score and four years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, except for migrants, women and the media. Now we are engaged in a great pandemic, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and […]
Henry Ford Broke His Promises.
One of the defining features of narcissism is the frequency of broken promises, by a person who is loyal only to himself and tends to view himself as the real “victim.” Henry Ford, the narcissist, was not a man one could trust with his word. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, Ford welched […]
Why Did Henry Ford Hate the Jews?
Henry Ford actually knew and liked a number of Jews who he knew in the particular. His neighbor Rabbi Leo M. Franklin and prominent Detroit architect, Albert Kahn come to mind. His dislike ran to the abstract concept of Jews operating within the stream of commerce, particularly those engaged in investment banking and agricultural product […]
Were the Dodge Brothers Jewish?
Henry Ford had a fear and resentment for the Dodge brothers, Horace and John. He was superstitious about their red hair, disapproving of their rambunctious lifestyles, and embittered over their considerable contribution to the success of the Ford Motor Company. In the early days of the Company the Dodges produced most of the Ford cars, […]
A New History of the Holocaust.
The New York Times reported today and yesterday that Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, just removed a right leaning German minister, Hans-Georg Maassen, from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for his alleged failure to effectively monitor and control the rise of neo-facist political parties in Germany. Facism is very much […]
A Quiet President
The 1924 Presidential campaign arguably featured two men among a number of contestants who were the most like and the most unlike the current occupant of the office – they were Henry Ford and Calvin Coolidge. In the spring of 1923, Henry Ford led the field in a Collier’s Magazine presidential preference poll, including […]
Bury Goldwater Rule??
During the 1964 Presidential campaign Senator Barry Goldwater (R. Ariz.), issued a number of statements concerning his willingness to actually use tactical nuclear weapons in limited conflicts. Goldwater’s nuclear musings led to broad concerns about his embrace of “extremism,” magnified by pro-Johnson ads depicting a young girl picking petals off of daisy with a nuclear […]
Base Alloy
Karl Marx once said that “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Many observers have commented on the recent reinfection of right-wing nativism and anti-immigrant bigotry that echo the earlier rise of the Know-Nothing political party in the 1850s and the resurrection of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s. The current contamination […]