About the Progressive Professor
Name Ronald Feinman
Occupation College Professor
Location Boca Raton, Florida
Interests Politics, history, baseball, music of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, movies, journalism, reading, travel, my two sons Dave and Paul
I am a professor of American History, Government and Politics, as well as a lecturer on modern American topics. I am also the author of an historical monograph on the New Deal years entitled TWILIGHT OF PROGRESSIVISM: THE WESTERN REPUBLICAN SENATORS AND THE NEW DEAL (Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981). I have also been published as a source on contemporary politics by the following newspapers:
I am proud to call myself a liberal and a progressive, as it has been liberals and progressives who have promoted the political, social and economic reforms of the past century that have made America the country that it is--a democracy designed to protect personal freedom, but also promote what is best for the nation as well.
The goal of this blog is to present my views on public affairs and to invite comment and discussion on the important issues America faces in the nation and world today.
April 5th, 2010 - 23:31
Professor Feinman, I just recently discovered your website and I am so enjoying reading intelligent discussion on all of these important issues! I have added your site to my “favorites” and will be checking it regularly. I am a professor in nursing education at a state university and just like you “I am proud to call myself a liberal and a progressive!”. You hit the nail on the head when you stated the TRUTH ” it’s been the liberals and progressives who have promoted, political, social and economic reforms”…not the conservatives. The right wing works hard to fool….rather…LIE to Americans about this fact. Thank you for creating this site and speaking the truth.
April 8th, 2010 - 17:29
Hello Prof. Feinman, knowing you, and people like you, who share the liberation of freedom of speech and constructiveness towards a better movement of our nation, is extremely rewarding and an honor.
Conservation does not speak for us all, yet, it only masquerades and holds back the TRUTH. But, we all have to wake up and look in the mirror, at some time or another. Also, too much conservation, on the other hand, never allows for those riskful, yet, greatest opportunities in life. Thank you for sharing this website of enlightment.
June 11th, 2010 - 14:20
Dear Prof,
From one “prof” to another, I was delighted to stumble on your blog while looking for the origins of the tea party. Didn’t know there were any liberals in FL, but you probably thought there aren’t any in Virginia either. I lay the impetus for the tea party squarely at the feet of the “Party of NO” and their constant vitriol. They made people angry (well, those that weren’t already angry about having an African American President) and now they’re having to live with the results (e.g., Mitch McConnell watching his chosen candidate go down in flames at the hands of the tea partiers).
Mike in Richmond
August 2nd, 2010 - 23:06
Have a wonderful time in NY with your Sons Professor!!
marggie Mitchell
August 15th, 2010 - 15:43
It is always humorous to me when a pseudo-intellectual “professor” pretends to further his ideas by claiming a vote of confidence from other supposedly “intellectuals.” Making correct economic decisions is not a democratic activity. When people don’t do their homework and take the time to understand a situation, they make emotional claims and use other’s emotional claims as proof that their own are in the correct direction.
August 23rd, 2010 - 23:10
I am actually quite excited to have you as my professor this semester(Maybe more seeing as I want to take Political science next semester). Reading your blogs, and listening to you in class I can already tell this will be my favorite class of the semester/year.
I may not agree with everything politically that you may have to say, but that doesn’t make it wrong/right.
Being a history junkie myself I can’t wait to begin.