Tag: American history

Why do we exalt Jefferson over the Adams family? Answer that and I think you get to the heart of ...

The current crisis is a mirror image of the 1890s. It is its polar opposite. The trends, thanks to technology ...

That's why I believe impeachment is too good for this President. There must be no immunity, no statute of limitations, ...

It's an election about principles. First principles. The American people want out of Iraq, they want a true War Against ...

Wars of occupation no longer pay. They haven't paid for a generation. But we lack the political vocabulary, and the ...

The plain demographic fact is that if you're under 55 the so-called "baby boomer issues" which engendered the Nixon Thesis ...

We were not betrayed in Vietnam. We lost. We are not betrayed in Iraq. We have lost. The betrayers are ...

The worst is possible, but it's not as likely as you think. And if you assume it's inevitable, that there's ...

History says the real battle is yet to come, and it hints loudly of the outcome. But real history is ...

So conservatives don't read Hofstadter because it's uncomfortable. Liberals don't read him because they're living in what he considers a ...