Celebrating the railsplitter’s 216th birthday.
Founders & Lincoln
The Principles, Purposes, and Form of Republican Government. We will not resolve the present crises without deeply considering the principles and purposes of American government before the progressive era. It is impossible to go back, but to go forward wisely we must understand the the form of the regime wrought by the Founders and Lincoln, and the tradition of republican government.
They wholly rejected British common law on this question.
A new documentary resurrects a frivolous old innuendo.
The Constitution and America’s philosophical cause.
A modest reflection on the U.S.’s perfection.
Reviving the constitutional order will require heroic national effort.
Trump’s defense of the self-evident truths of our Founding should give way to a Lincolnian reconciliation.
The Founders and Lincoln on the meaning of July 4th
Reaching out to some doubters of the American Revolution.
Our rights had to come from somewhere.
An imagined conversation on Lincoln’s 215th birthday
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
