Marvin Folkersma
Thu, May 06, 2010
When Regimes Reach Insanity
On August 25, 1914, in a spate of disorder, shots rang out from the Belgian town of Louvain, instigating its German occupiers to launch a frenzy of looting and destruction. Crazed soldiers butchered ...
Fri, March 19, 2010
The Progressives' Destruction of Constitutional Rights
Editor's note: This is one of many coming articles from The Center for Vision & Values dealing with the topic of our April 15-16 conference on "The Progressives." Click here for ...
Thu, March 04, 2010
The Politics of Arrogance
On the eve of the German offensive against France in August 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm confidently asserted to some departing troops, "You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the ...
Thu, January 28, 2010
The Relevance of Scott Brown
Republicans have greeted Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts with the sort of relief expressed by Winston Churchill when he learned that Pearl Harbor had prompted America to finally enter the war; ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
Finally, An Honest Con Game
"This is not funny, this is serious stuff!" intones a flock of furrow-browed politicos about that well-dressed couple who conned their way into a White House shindig. Yes and no, in that ...
Tue, November 24, 2009
Barack and the Buchanan Precedent
Presidential comparisons that greeted Barack Obama's election ranged from the sublime to the transcendent. He was variously described as the second coming of John F. Kennedy, a re-embodiment of ...
Fri, October 30, 2009
Washington's Masque of the Red Death
New administrations normally inspire commentators into rummaging through a thesaurus to extract that single phrase or word that is apposite to the times. Instead musing about a reincarnation of The ...
Thu, September 18, 2008
A Tale of Two Narratives -- And the Palin Paradigm
Reactions to Governor Palin's selection as Senator McCain's running mate ranged from laughter to incredulity and then from alarm to panic. Indeed, editorials on the danger she poses to Senator ...
