American political persuasion of the 1790s until the 1820s
Adam White writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the interesting history of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. [C]onsider … the early 20th-century progressives’ arguments against the Supreme…
Michael Barone‘s latest column for the Washington Examiner asserts that President Obama remains aloof from American foreign-policy traditions. Whether Obama’s decision to launch air strikes against the Islamic State of…
One of the most interesting political battles this year is over the Export-Import Bank. The Ex-Im Bank is one of those crony capitalist institutions that aids a few well-connected companies,…
No one man could be said to have set the stage for the last 230 years of American politics. But retired University of West Georgia history professor John Ferling uses…
Amity Shlaes writes in the latest Forbes magazine about facts that contradict the popular view among left-of-center partisans about John F. Kennedy’s political views. Buried under a progressive monument built…
Jim McTague devotes his latest “D.C. Current” column in Barron’s to outlining steps President Obama could take to boost the economy, rather than criticize his political opponents. Our youthful President…
I was reading this article about history and the Tea Party movement. Whether one agrees with the Tea Party, writes the author, he or she must be aware that it’s…
University of Baltimore law professor Garrett Epps offers in the new Atlantic a Jeffersonian critique of the Hamiltonian notion of a powerful American executive: The modern presidency is primarily the…
Efforts to pin the blame for our economic troubles on the free market abound and Professor Thomas DiLorenzo writes here about a recent Wall Street Journal piece by John Steele…
Those of us from Columbia County, NY don’t think that there is anything unlikely at all about “Old Kinderhook’s” quote. Afterall, he was the last of the true Jeffersonians–OK?
In addition to trying to outline sane lobbying reform for our ongoing criminal conspiracy/state government, Field Marshall Hood has discovered a history of James Polk’s Mecklenburg experience: [Mecklenburg was] an…
I am scanning a 1986 biography of President James K. Polk by Paul Bergeron. As Polk was the greatest president in American history (!) and has an award named for…