Here is historian Noah Shusterman at The Washington Post: On Saturday, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, ordered his soldiers to withdraw from Ukraine and to instead set their sights on targets within Russia itself. First they took over Rostov,...
Carl T. Bogus is Professor of Law Emeritus at Roger Williams University. This interview is based on his new book, Madison’s Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Madison’s...
Last week we published a post on Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s op-ed in The New York Post condemning critical race theory and promoting his personal view of what young Americans should learn in history class. His views are encapsulated in...
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...
Michelle Bachmann, the new dean of Regent University’s school of government, visited MAGA evangelical Jim Garlow’s “election integrity” prayer meeting this week. You can watch it here. (It was posted on Eric Metaxas’s Rumble page). Bachmann warns the pro-Trump evangelical...
Here is Robert Jeffress fighting for his rights and getting out the white evangelical vote: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6bJS8PFcxk&w=560&h=315] It’s all about abortion. Actually, it’s all about one way of dealing with the problem of abortion....
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Samuel Rodriguez is upset about the prohibition on singing in California churches. You cannot permit tens of thousands to march in protest without masks and demand that 100 worshipers refrain from singing. That my...
You can see the National Archive’s exhibit “Amending America: The Bill of Rights” at LancasterHistory.org in Lancaster, PA. Learn more from Jennifer Kopf‘s piece at Lancaster Online. Here is a taste: Two years ago, on the 225th anniversary of that...
In an earlier post I recommended Fordham University historian Saul Cornell‘s book A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. It is the best historical account of the Second Amendment that I have read. I...
Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America Saul Cornell, Who’s Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect? Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction Adam Winkler, Gunfight: The Battle...
I love this story. It encourages me to see history informing law enforcement in one of the most crime-ridden cities in the United States. There may yet be hope for the humanities!Here is a taste from a news story that...
I like Ben Carson. He seems like a good guy. I even agree with him on a few things. But he is just not cut out for a presidential run. He seems very uncomfortable in this role. He is a...
Carol Berkin is residential Professor of History at Baruch College and a member of the history faculty of the Graduate Center of CUNY, Emerita. This interview is based on her new book, The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties (Simon...
Greg Weiner, a political science professor at Assumption College and author of Madison’s Metronome: The Constitution, Majority Rule, and the Tempo of American Politics, believes that the only way to curb gun violence is to curb the “rights culture” that...
I spent part of my Sunday morning in Carlisle, PA speaking to the members of the weekly Adult Forum at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Carlisle, a congregation that is over 250 years old. It was a very knowledgeable...
