Tag: Liberal
There Is No Liberal World Order
In February 1994, in the grand ballroom of the town hall in Hamburg, Germany, the president of Estonia gave a remarkable speech. Standing before an audience in evening dress, Lennart Meri praised the values of the democratic world that Estonia then aspired to join. “The freedom of every individual, the freedom of the economy and trade, as well as the freedom of the mind, of culture and science, are inseparably interconnected,” he told the burghers of Hamburg. “They
Supreme Court Conservatives Plot A Liberal Apocalypse In 2022
The Supreme Court’s six-member conservative supermajority will flex its muscle in a series of high-profile cases in 2022 that will agonize liberals while fulfilling some of the wildest dreams that have eluded the conservative movement since it came to power with Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential election.
The changes anticipated to abortion, affirmative action, gun rights, school prayer, rights of criminal suspects and the federal administrative state could transform U.S. law and upend American politics. This moment is the fruition of
„Cringing Little Liberal“: Tucker Carlson knallt Brett Kavanaugh für die Aufrechterhaltung des Vax-Mandats für das Gesundheitswesen
Der Moderator von Fox News, Tucker Carlson, nannte den Richter des Obersten Gerichtshofs, Brett Kavanaugh, einen „kriechenden kleinen Liberalen“, nachdem Kavanaugh sich auf die Seite der liberalen Richter gestellt hatte, um ein Impfmandat für die Gesundheitsfürsorge aufrechtzuerhalten.
Wie der Washington Examiner hervorhob, schlossen sich der von Trump ernannte Kavanaugh und der Oberste Richter John Roberts den drei liberalen Richtern des Gerichts an, um ein Impfmandat für medizinische Einrichtungen zu erteilen, die Medicare- oder Medicaid-Zahlungen entgegennehmen.
Als er mit Anwalt Harmeet
George Packer’s Liberal Faith | The Nation
George Packer is one of the most successful long-form journalists of his generation. For more than two decades, he has been among this country’s leading liberal commentators. Offering a political and often personal chronicle of the vicissitudes of American liberalism over the past century, he has sought at once to reclaim and repurpose a political tradition he knows is in crisis.
With each book, the task has gotten harder for him. In
The Liberal Attack on Government
“Let the public service be a proud and lively career,” President John F. Kennedy proclaimed in his January 1961 message to Congress. “Let every man and woman who works in any area of our national government,” he continued, “say with pride and with honor in future years: ‘I served the United States government in that hour of our nation’s need.’”
Kennedy’s message succeeded: Young Democrats, heeding his call, filled the offices of the nation’s executive agencies. And yet just 20 … Read more