Understanding Slavery and the American Founding: A Conversation with Gordon...
This new conversation in Liberty Law Talk is with Gordon Lloyd, a scholar of the American founding. Lloyd focuses on the debates in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the state constitutional...
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Abraham Lincoln is in the news again. That means that our politicians are comparing themselves to President Lincoln. This is an old pattern. After David McCullough’s Truman became a bestseller, the...
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Do We Want a Redeemed Constitution?
My current podcast is a discussion with a most excellent scholar, Michael Paulsen, on the book he has coauthored with his son, Luke Paulsen, introducing the U. S. Constitution to the general reader....
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Go Down, Moses
When the Secretary of the Treasury announced that Andrew Jackson would be replaced on the face of the $20 bill by Harriet Tubman, responses from conservatives were lively. Especially so was that of the...
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Protest against the Macron government in Strasbourg, France, July 12, 2017 (Hadrian/Shutterstock.com).Abraham Lincoln is in the news again. That means that our politicians are comparing themselves to...
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Do We Want a Redeemed Constitution?
My current podcast is a discussion with a most excellent scholar, Michael Paulsen, on the book he has coauthored with his son, Luke Paulsen, introducing the U. S. Constitution to the general reader....
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Go Down, Moses
Statue at Harriet Tubman Square, Pembroke Street and Columbus Avenue, Boston.When the Secretary of the Treasury announced that Andrew Jackson would be replaced on the face of the $20 bill by Harriet...
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America’s Exceptional Guilt
Statue of William Lloyd Garrison on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, MA, USA (age fotostock / Alamy Stock Photo).For the 1619 Project, even the Garrisonian solution—of demanding that Americans open their...
View ArticleThey Want to Be Like Abe
Abraham Lincoln is in the news again. That means that our politicians are comparing themselves to President Lincoln. This is an old pattern. After David McCullough’s Truman became a bestseller, the...
View ArticleDo We Want a Redeemed Constitution?
My current podcast is a discussion with a most excellent scholar, Michael Paulsen, on the book he has coauthored with his son, Luke Paulsen, introducing the U. S. Constitution to the general reader....
View ArticleGo Down, Moses
When the Secretary of the Treasury announced that Andrew Jackson would be replaced on the face of the $20 bill by Harriet Tubman, responses from conservatives were lively. Especially so was that of the...
View ArticleAmerica’s Exceptional Guilt
Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a Law & Liberty symposium on the 1619 Project. In framing America’s national history as pro-slavery to its core, the Times follows, and intensifies, the...
View ArticleThe Legend of the Proslavery Constitution
Historians today speak of the “proslavery Constitution” and “antislavery constitutionalism”; they almost never speak of the “antislavery Constitution” or of “proslavery constitutionalism.” This fact...
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