Tag: Abraham Lincoln

Most analysts who watched President Obama today derided the Lincoln comparison, claiming we face nothing so large as what he ...

Two houses, both alike in dignity. Hillary Clinton, like Nixon before her, stands for the old AntiThesis. Barack Obama, on ...

The point is that every new Thesis starts with a base vote, millions of people who feel they are not ...

Of all these characters from our history, I've concluded that Obama is most like Jackson (stolen election leading to party-building, ...

This is a human Lincoln, an ordinary Lincoln, a Lincoln we could all aspire to be, when touched as we ...

After his assassination, this second Martin Luther King was also pushed aside. We are now 39 years removed from his ...

If we become as ruthless as our enemies, if we become what they claim we are, then it will not ...

I recommend the whole of Prof. Cole's piece today, not just to readers but especially to writers, and most especially ...

Regular readers know I have a generational theory of American political history. Great change emerges from great crises. These crises ...