Henry Ford

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/27/2023
  

  Review: New Book Worships the False Idol of the Responsible Corporation

  The idea of corporate social responsibility is an artifact of the domination of society by big business, a domination so powerful as to make alternatives exceedingly difficult to imagine. A new book internalizes that difficulty. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  12/1/2022
  

  Pamela Nadell: US May be at High Tide of Antisemitism

  Antisemitism is less socially acceptable than in Henry Ford's day, but it's become much more acceptable since the rise of Donald Trump. Has America reached a tipping point where conspiracy theories and collective slanders of Jews are mainstreamed? Also feat. Kathleen Belew and Deborah Lipstadt.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  2/17/2022
  

  American Antisemitism and Nationalism in the Charlottesville Verdict

  by Victoria Saker Woeste

  The awarding of $25 million in damages from the organizers of the Unite the Right rally to nine people injured in the violence are not enough of a penalty to stop the political mobilization of antisemitism in the new white nationalist coalition.

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  8/21/2020
  

  The Text That Stoked Modern Antisemitism

  The FBI recently tweeted out its archival copy of the notorious antisemitic conspiracy tract "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" without any context or explanation. Here's where it came from and a summary of its influence.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Trump's Bad "Bloodlines"

  by Rafael Medoff

  Donald Trump recently continued an ignoble legacy of American presidents endorsing eugenics and other pseudoscientific theories of racial hierarchy.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Ways that Donald Trump is Just Like Henry Ford, And Why That’s Not Good for American Democracy

  by Victoria Woeste

  Trump's comments praising Henry Ford's "bloodline" are no coincidence. Both men used the American cult of the businessman to amass power and wealth while championing the idea of racial hierarchy.

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• SOURCE: Independent
  5/21/2020
  

  'Good Bloodlines!' Trump Praises Henry Ford, Motor Pioneer whose Antisemitism was Admired by Hitler

  The president also refused to wear face coverings for the entirety of his visit despite being urged by the company to do so.

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• 9-3-17
  

  When Trump Denounces the “Fake Media” Anti-Semites Hear “Jew Media”

  by Victoria Saker Woeste

  His attacks resemble Henry Ford’s. He too was embraced by anti-Semites.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-20-17
  

  NYT features fascinating story about Ford’s fantasyland in Brazil

  Ford constructed an American-style town, which he wanted inhabited by Brazilians hewing to what he considered American values. He was after a reliable source of rubber.

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• SOURCE: Priceonomics
  6-9-16
  

  Henry Ford’s Campaign to Make America Great Again

  In the 1924 presidential election, the most hyped candidate was an egotistical and fabulously wealthy businessman who many politicians did not believe would really run. That man was legendary carmaker Henry Ford.

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• 4-1-16
  

  75 Years Ago Workers Successfully Defeated Henry Ford

  by Martin Halpern

  Why that’s especially worth remembering this year.

• SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
  8-20-13
  

  $5 campaign aims to turn crumbling Model T assembly line into shrine

  Less than seven weeks from now, Oct. 7 will mark the 100th anniversary of the moving automobile assembly line at the historic Highland Park complex, where Henry Ford first paid workers $5 a day to build Model T cars.But as with far too much of metro Detroit’s automotive heritage, the Ford Highland Park property has sat largely dormant and ignored for decades, sorely in need of restoration and renovation so it can be properly celebrated as a shrine of American ingenuity.Today, the Woodward Avenue Action Association (WA3) is launching an online crowd funding campaign, dubbed Five Dollars a Day, hoping to raise the final $125,000 needed to buy two historic structures on the site, the four-story Administration Building which fronts Woodward, and an adjacent 8,000-square-foot executive garage....

• SOURCE: NYT
  1-29-13
  

  PBS Takes a Look at Henry Ford

  Henry Ford is the latest subject of “American Experience,” which will be broadcast on PBS stations on Tuesday from 9 to 11 p.m. Other subjects include Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.Ford is the only one of the three who left a company with his name. Carnegie and Rockefeller are better known for philanthropic foundations, although Ford also created a foundation with his name on it.If there’s a lesson from Ford for today’s entrepreneurs it is this: Don’t stay in charge of the company too long.

• Henry Ford for President!

  by Joseph Kip Kosek

  The nation’s leading capitalist emerges as a surprise candidate for president.  His political views range from unknown to repulsive to incoherent, but he vaults to the top of early opinion polls.  He has that flair, that self-reliance, that je ne sais pas that set him apart in an undistinguished field.  The man, of course, is Henry Ford.  Long before Donald Trump burst into contention for the Republican nomination, Ford briefly became the most exciting prospect for the presidential election of 1924.