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 […]
Emolument or Emolient? Does the Constitution prohibit financial conflicts of interest by the President of the United States?
One of the timely the questions working its way through the federal district courts in Manhattan and the District of Columbia is whether Donald Trump’s apparent conflicts of interest in his and his family’s ongoing involvement in the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC and other golf course and real estate development ventures implicates the […]
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 […]
The Elopement of Empathy: Henry Ford and Donald Trump
Henry Ford and Donald Trump, two prominent and successful businessmen in their separate times, developed dangerous, maladaptive personalities leavened by an overwhelming need to protect their vulnerable, inner selves with an obsessive armor of self-absorption and advancement — extreme narcissism. Their individual successes largely spun around a core of special talent and ability and a […]