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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]