Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Thomas E. Brewton

Don’t Blame Business For Our Inflation

Thomas E. Brewton — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:44:02 +0000

Businessmen can't raise prices whenever it suits them without a consumer rebellion.

Politicians will always falsely blame inflation on businessmen's "greed." But only government deficit spending using fiat money can create inflation.

Inflation consists in increasing the money supply faster than the increase in production of goods that people want, the condition we endure [...]

Greed Before Prudence

Thomas E. Brewton — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:08:58 +0000

The spectacle of concerted strikes by Wisconsin teachers is a throwback to the syndicalist origin of mass industrial unions in the United States.

Wisconsin syndicalists are prepared to destroy organized government, if necessary, to continue looting the public treasury.

The spectacle of concerted strikes by teachers, other public employee unions, and by Democrat/Socialist Party [...]

A Liberal-Progressive Abstraction: Caring For The Little Guy

Thomas E. Brewton — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:56:38 +0000

Because "the people" is an abstraction, misery inflicted in real life is not on the radar screen of liberal-progressive academics.

Anthony Paletta's book review "describes urban renewal's human costs."

Liberal-progressives are fond of grand, sweeping state-planning projects, conceived in abstraction by academic theorists. Their preference is for betting the house on one roll of the [...]

Academic Theorist in the White House

Thomas E. Brewton — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:07:08 +0000

Obama in the eyes of an academic.

James T. Kloppenberg is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. His featured article in the November-December 2010 edition of the Harvard alumni magazine explains why academics find President Obama so attractive.

The article title "From Hull House to the White House" sets the [...]

The Danger of a Government with Unlimited Power

Thomas E. Brewton — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:06:52 +0000

The fundamental thrust of governments such as that of President Obama is to abrogate the rights of private property, aiming at the holy grail of their secular religion: redistribution of income and wealth to reduce everyone to an equally low state of economic equality.

The Obama administration continues the nation's travels, since Franklin Roosevelt's socialist New [...]

The 17th Amendment Revisited

Thomas E. Brewton — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:06:22 +0000

The Senate was intended to be the bulwark against unwise political actions that infringed upon the rights and powers reserved to the states and to the people by the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Bill of Rights.

Original provisions of the Constitution intended to prevent Congress from enacting "dumb" laws were vitiated by ratification [...]

Housing Slumps Despite Obama’s Stimulus Spending

Thomas E. Brewton — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:53:51 +0000

Stimulus spending distorts economic activity by channeling funds to favored interest groups at the expense of others, smothering the economic processes necessary to clear the decks for sound new growth.

The housing market is the most recent of many examples of the failure of Obama's stimulus plans to revive the economy by repealing principles of [...]

No-Fathers Day

Thomas E. Brewton — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:47:15 +0000

Why is it so important for liberal-progressives to reduce or eliminate loyalty to the family unit?

A central tenet in liberal-progressive-socialism is re-directing allegiance from the family as the primary social unit and elevation of the political state as the primary source of individual well-being. Ultimately fathers' role in this social paradigm is relegated to anonymously [...]

Pelosi As God’s Emissary

Thomas E. Brewton — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:34:26 +0000

Liberal-progressives will, in the main, find nothing in the Social Gospel with which to disagree.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent claim to be enacting the Word of God in her socialist legislative steamrolling is a rerun of the Social Gospel heresy that befell American Christianity around 1870.

Even before the 1917 Russian Revolution, leading universities in [...]

Fiduciary Responsibility and Judgment vs. Caveat Emptor

Thomas E. Brewton — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:24:54 +0000

Right or wrong, the charges against Goldman Sachs highlight divergent standards of banking.

There is every reason to suspect that the charges against Goldman Sachs are little more than a political ploy by the administration to shift attention away from its own financial improvidence and to add impetus to its proposed regulatory strangulation of [...]