In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected president with 61.1% of the popular vote, the highest share for any candidate since 1824. With this mandate, he enacted his Great Society program,…
Evidence is clear that tax hikes, especially those on income, are very harmful to economic growth since they are more distortionary to productive economic activity than other taxes. Income taxes…
Minnesota’s Walter Mondale famously failed to resurrect Hubert Humphrey’s liberal coalition, but also took the first, faltering steps toward a new progressive politics that appealed to younger, educated, middle-class voters.
Why the 'Happy Warrior' would find no perch among today's progressives.
“I think the thing that's most wrong with Hubert Humphrey is that he is not cognizant of the limited, finite ability government has to deal with people's problems. And I…
American Experiment President John Hinderaker interviews acclaimed author Amity Shlaes about the lingering burdens of Big Government domestic policies from the 1960s. Your new book, Great Society, turns out to…
American Experiment President John Hinderaker interviews acclaimed author Amity Shlaes about the lingering burdens of Big Government domestic policies from the 1960s.
A new study provides qualified support for the private provision of social insurance.
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Hubert…
Carl Solberg’s excellent biography of Hubert Humphrey – the liberal Mayor of Minneapolis, Senator for Minnesota, and vice president to Lyndon Johnson – contains the following story. Until he became…
Stanford University’s John E. Cogan has been writing brilliantly for decades about how federal entitlement spending has a nasty habit of growing a lot bigger and a lot faster than…
Candace Owens explains what happens when you threaten the liberals’ lock on African American voters.
The real legacy of the Age of Aquarius was the Reagan Revolution.
How Did Such Smart People Get it So Wrong?
A few bulleted, campaign-inspired thoughts about political correctness, which I started writing about in the 1970s. One of the best things I wrote in graduate school back then was a…