by Harvey J Kaye | Jan 9, 2018 | Blog
We who will oppose tyranny in all its guises this year don’t yet have our own Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Martin Luther King, Jr. - but we do have their words. Keep them close. ...
by Harvey J Kaye | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog
Halloween is coming and fear mongering seems to be the order of the day – not just on the part of Republicans, but apparently no less so on the part of “centrist” and conservative Democrats who are expressing growing anxiety about offending big donors who see politics...
by Harvey J Kaye | May 1, 2017 | Blog
The Resistance needs to develop a memory of how past generations confronted reactionary threats to American democracy. Franklin Roosevelt’s first “Hundred Days” of 1933, in which the newly-elected president and a Democratic-controlled Congress confronted the...
by Harvey J Kaye | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump’s candidacy, and now, presidency, have resurrected a public conversation not heard in the United States since the Great Depression – about the possible triumph of a fascist-tinged authoritarian regime over liberal democracy. It’s a fear Sinclair Lewis...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The time has come. After 40 years of class war from above – of conservative political ascendance, neoliberal public policies and well-funded culture wars that together have subordinated the public good to private greed, made the rich grossly richer, and led so many of...