by Harvey J Kaye | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The Wisconsin Public Radio/National Public Radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge regularly asks writers if they have a "Dangerous Idea" that they would like to talk about (unscripted). My Dangerous Idea was American exceptionalism. I did not speak on the dangers of...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 29, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In his New York Times column last Friday, "The Spiritual Recession" (June 27, 2014), conservative David Brooks posed the same question he essentially first posed seventeen years ago in "A Return to National Greatness: A Manifesto for a Lost Creed" (Weekly Standard,...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
From Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" and Jefferson's Declaration of Independence to FDR's "Four Freedoms" and MLK's "I Have a Dream" speeches, democratic words have inspired us to make America freer, more equal, and more democratic. Hoping that they continue to...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 9, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
If you ever doubt the powers of the past, just consider how much the Right fears them. It is a fear that drives them to continuously try to control the past and our memory of it: They try to deny history. They try to manipulate it. They try to suppress it. Indeed,...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan went to Normandy, France, to speak at events commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day. Addressing statesmen, dignitaries, and veterans of those landings and their families, he spoke eloquently and movingly, especially at...
