Slavery Abolition

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VirginiaThe Camp Ten Four restaurant, on the ninth and top floor of the Graduate Charlottesville hotel, offers a good view of much of this city associated with Thomas Jefferson. Sitting at a table in the rustic venue, Charlottesville residen…

The president most known for his moral vision was also a master political operator.  All the Powers of Earth is the third installment of Sidney Blumenthal’s ongoing multivolume chronicle of “the political life of Abraham Lincoln.” It is sharply focused on th…

Six thousand years of humans writing down history reveal the most common form of government has been a monarchy. The most powerful monarchy the world had ever seen was the British monarchy. The British Empire at it zenith controlled 13 million square miles a…

For anyone who listens regularly to Rush Limbaugh, they are familiar with his thoughts on the far-left (the "deranged left" as he puts it) redefining America as a racist country founded in racism and also his thoughts on the increasing problems with a college…

Seven years ago today, as the presidential election contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney entered the home stretch, Vice President Joe Biden spoke at three events in Detroit. Biden was in the news that week because of an intemperate assertion that Repu…

As conflict over court-ordered busing roiled his home state, Biden led a crusade against the civil rights measure, later boasting that he made it politically acceptable for other liberals to oppose it. He built alliances with Republican racists like Sen. Jess…

Beto ORourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting. This country, though we would like to think otherwise, he intoned over the weekend, was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today. This is now a mainstream sentime…

From the novels of Louis LAmour to the high-action western films of the 1950s, western fiction has been dominated by male narratives that focus heavily on the experiences of white, cisgendered, heterosexual men. This comes at the expense of the otherwise rich…

The ongoing crusade against Americas civic rituals and founding values picked up pace this summer. The city council of St. Louis Park, Minn., stopped reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before its meetings, lest immigrants feel uncomfortable. Nike junked a com…

Who was Walter Bagehot? For generations of politics students he has been the all-but-unpronounceable Bayge-hot? Baggott? author of the magisterial TheEnglish Constitution (1867). Since the 2008 crash he has enjoyed a vogue among central bankers for Lombard St…