When Money Is Exchanged For Pregnancy, Some

A Lot Of Populists After Populism Died Just Became Socialists. At The Beginning Of The 20th Century, Socialism Looked Like It Was Going To Take Off. It Didn't, Of Course, But A Lot Of People Thought It Was Going To.

[the Right] May Never Bring Prayer Back To Schools, But It Has Rescued All Manner Of Rightwing Economic Nostrums From History's Dustbins. Having Rolled Back The Landmark Economic Reforms Of The Sixties (the War On Poverty) And Those Of The Thirties (labor Law, Agricultural Price Supports, Banking Regulation), Its Leaders Now Turn Their Guns On The Accomplishments Of The Earliest Years Of Progressivism (woodrow Wilson's Estate Tax; Theodore Roosevelt's Anti-trust Measures). With A Little More Effort, The Backlash May Well Repeal The Entire Twentieth Century.

Massive Inequality, We Have Learned, Isn't The Best Way To Run An Economy After All. And When You Think About It, It's Also Profoundly Ugly.

As You May Recall, Truman Was Extremely Unpopular When He Finally Left Washington In 1953, Thanks Largely To The Korean War. Today, However, He Is Thought To Have Been A Solidly Good President, A 'near Great' Even, In The Terminology Of Those Surveys Of Historians They Do Every Now And Then.

This Aesthetic Quality, Then, Is What Politics Is All About. It's Authenticity That Separates Winners From Losers, Good Politics From Bad, And He-man Leader-types From Consultant-directed Puppet-boys.