A few things online that caught my attention this week: In praise of Barnes & Noble Is liberalism worth saving? Arthur Brooks: “happiness revolutionary” Camille Davis reviews Bruce Ragsdale, Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of […]
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David French joins The New York Times
The Dispatch and Atlantic writer, known for a conservativism that celebrates pluralism and rejects Trumpism, will be a regular columnist at The New York Times. Here is the press release: Writing about politics and current affairs in the era of […]
FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Three
A time to listen
FORUM: The End of Roe, Day One
A time to listen
Gerson: The GOP spin on guns is “wrong–morally and legally”
Here is Michael Gerson’s recent Washington Post column: Is the slaughter of innocents the unavoidable price of freedom? A significant group of Americans believe it is. In a recent CBS-YouGov poll, 44 percent of Republicans agreed that mass shootings are […]
The Author’s Corner with Steven K. Green
Steven K. Green is Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Religion, Law and Democracy at Willamette University. This interview is based on his new book, Separating Church and State: A History (Cornell University Press, […]
The Author’s Corner with Jared Hardesty
Jared Hardesty is Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University. This interview is based on his new book, Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate (NYU Press, 2021). JF: What led you to […]
On Constitution Day, Let’s Remember the Losers
Winners write history. But what if we occasionally used Constitution Day to think about what might have been? What if we told the story of the 1780s from the perspective of the losers?
“Worldview”: No Substitute for Facts
What does reason require us to believe?
Josh Hawley said “folks should look and see what’s in this [bipartisan infrastructure] bill.” So I did.
Tomorrow morning the Senate will pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. Not everyone is happy about it. Some GOP senators, including Mike Lee (UT), Rick Scott (FL), Ron Johnson (WI), Josh Hawley (MO), have denounced it. They will lose […]
When it comes to the Second Amendment, Matt Gaetz has no clue
Watch the Florida congressman in action at a recent rally: Actually… no. Here is Saul Cornell, our best historian of the Second Amendment, writing in 2012: The founders had a word for a bunch of farmers marching with guns without […]