The Liberal New Deal Fantasy

I don’t know why Amity Shlaes stirs such a vicious response to her articles about FDR’s New Deal. Well, actually I think I do. The New Deal is the foundation of the liberal world. If it were determined that control, experimentation, and manipulation of business by the  government were really harmful to our well being, that would undermine everything they stood for.

Readers of this blog know well that Shlaes wrote the very successful book about the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man.  She wrote an article entitled “FDR Was a Great Leader, But His Economic Plan Isn’t One to Follow” in the Sunday Washington Post. In my opinion this is a worthy sentiment, though I disagree with her proposed remedies. Since Obama has been called upon to emulate FDR, she pointed out the failures of FDR’s administration which included the prolongation of the Great Depression.

I understand that D.C. is a company town. But the responses to her article were mean spirited. Here are some typical responses form the Post’s web site: … Continue reading Amity Shlaes and the New New Deal