- by Diego GarciaLouis Dembitz Brandeis was born on November 13, 1856, in Louisville Kentucky to a middle-class family. The Brandeis’ immigrated to America leaving behind a long Rabbinical line of social reformers originating from Bohemia, today part of the Czech Republic, a small city on the river called Brandeis on the Elbe. (36) Brandeis grew up one […]
- by Diego Garcia“‘progressive’ is what we like, and the word ‘new,’ be it the New Nationalism of Roosevelt, the New Freedom of Wilson, or the New Socialism of the syndicalists.” Drift and Mastery, Walter Lippmann Introduction xix During our forensic investigation into the Progressive Era (1910-1920), we came upon one particular year more interesting than any other. […]
- by Diego GarciaThe Political Salons of Los Angeles For this story we focus on the interwar period following the Treaty of Versailles, showing its effects, and centers on those German and Austrian members of the Weimar who were forced from Germany as the Second World War approached. We enter the next layer of those very famous and […]
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- by Diego GarciaBy Diego Garcia How can we call him a great prognosticator of our future world when he was so complicit in the design and execution of it? Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 to an already prominent English family in the county of Surrey, South East England. Aldous attended Eton and received a Bachelor of […]