HISTORY HIGHLIGHT: Sen. Birch Bayh’s pioneering effort for permanent federal disaster relief
By Marilyn Odendahl
The Indiana Citizen
October 15, 2023
After every natural disaster, Americans now expect the federal government to lead the relief effort and provide aid to the victims.
But
If there is a right-wing cultural aesthetic in America, it is low-brow resentment. The old liberal-conservative tradition prized truth, beauty and the ‘the best which has been thought and said’. This has been shunted aside by a hair-trigger populism drawn to any cultural expression that scandalises progressive tastes. If people with graduate degrees hate it,
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