Crisis Management

Tired of the daily grandstanding by a “Crisis President” that wallows in third grade ad hominem invectives, gratuitous self congratulations, and thinly described projections of irresponsible personal dithering and fiddleing on other national and international leaders?  I suggest turning off the tube and picking up a copy of A.J. Baimes’ The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, […]

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Presidential Address in Time of Crisis.

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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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