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Blog Entries by Jonathan Weiler from 09/2009

Racial Resentment, Authoritarianism and Health Care Reform

| Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, Authoritarianism, Racial Resentment, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News

Preferences about health care reform and feelings about race have become intertwined.

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It's Not Tyranny; It's the Re-distribution, Stupid

| Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics
Read More: Tyranny, Demonization, Re-Distribution, Politics News

The profoundly anti-democratic (that's small "d" for those scoring at home) character of contemporary right-wing ideology is too plain to dispute.

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Norman Podhoretz's Jewish Question

| Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
Read More: Jews, Norman Podhoretz, Liberalism, Media News

It's Podhoretz's larger ethical vision that is most relevant to his incapacity to understand why the vast majority of Jews don't see things the way he does.

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The Great Disconnect

| Posted 09.16.2009 | Media
Read More: Class Conflict, Winner-Take-All Society, Revolt of the Elites, FInancial Markets, Economic Crisis, Economists, Paul Krugman, Bubble, Capitalism: A Love Story, Media News

The elite professional strata most responsible for shaping our political and economic discourse have grown richer and are increasingly articulating a worldview justifying their privileged position.

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The Tea Party Movement's Populism

| Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Read More: Tarp, Tea Party Movement, Glenn Beck, Populism, US-vs-Them, Politics News

If the slogan of left-wing populism might be "What about us?" the slogan of right-wing populism is "What about me and my kind?"

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