On Tuesday night, I wrote about Albert Mohler’s new book. Today it is Robert Jeffress’s turn. I saw that the first five chapters of his new book Praying for America were available for free download and I was going to try […]
Alien and Sedition Acts
The President Who Made it Illegal to Criticize the Presidency
Donald Trump? Not yet. I think he’d like to make it illegal to criticize him, but he hasn’t been able to pull it off yet. We are talking about John Adams and the Alien and Sedition Acts. Here is a […]
The Election of 1800 and Today
Yesterday the Messiah College History Department hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward Larson for a lecture titled “The Election of 1800 and the Birth of Partisan Presidential Politics.” The lecture stemmed from Larson’s 2007 book A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election […]