Slavery Abolition

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that unde…

Sometimes when were poking around in an archive, we come across century-old documents that are strangely relevant. Thats what the story of Enoch Marvin Banks became to me. An aging letter from 1911 that I found in the Columbia University archive revealed a st…

This article is part of the The Crossway Podcast series. Helping Christians Respond to Abortion In this episode of The Crossway Podcast, Scott Klusendorf discusses abortion and the current state of the pro-life movement. He highlights the biggest mistakes p…

“Electability” has emerged as a contentious issue among pundits, party activists and politicos during the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary. Some have dismissed the concept as a “delusion,” “canard” or “trap.” Technically, electability simp…

Skip to comments. Civil Rights, Race Politics, & LBJ's BIG SWITCH from Intimidation to EntitlementAmerican Minute ^ | July 28, 2910 | Bill Federer Posted on 08/02/2019 2:49:48 PM PDT by Perseverando In 1857, the Supreme Court, with 7 of the 9 Justi…

Listen to Sean Wilentz discuss No Property in Man—and argue that, far from covering up a crime against humanity, the Constitution restricted slavery’s legitimacy under the new national government—on the podcast The Age of Jackson:Listen to “Ep. 56: Slavery an…

The Democratic presidential campaign playbook has, for decades, included grand promises to reach out to the GOP to solve the nation’s ills. In 2020, some candidates are throwing that playbook out the window. “If the Republicans are going to try to block us …

This essay discusses plot points in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The author strongly recommends bookmarking this for after you have seen the movie. The notion that Quentin Tarantinos films are too obsessed with other films has always struck me as intriguin…

Skip to comments. Ronald Reagan's 1971 racist phone call with Richard Nixon unearthed NYPost ^ | July 31, 2019 Posted on 07/31/2019 11:05:25 AM PDT by SMGFan The National Archives released tape of a controversial 1971 phone call between then-California …

Protesters interrupted Donald Trump during a speech by shouting you cant send us back - Virginia is our home. Audience members at the US Presidents speech in Jamestown, Virginia booed and jeered as a man wearing a tuxedo stood up and shouted his message. He…