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Category Archives: American History
March 15, 2011
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A Red Dixiecrat Dawn?
Is America turning into Dixie? And, if it is, is that a bad thing? The controversy over the blue social model keeps heating up. With the controversy over Wisconsin’s restrictions on public employee unions metastasizing from the Madison protests to … Continue reading
March 5, 2011
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Lincoln, Davis in Inaugural Shuffle
[As part of The American Interest's commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I will be playing Civil War pundit from time to time: that is, I will post pieces about Civil War events as if they were … Continue reading
December 24, 2010
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Nothing To Celebrate, Folks, Please Move Along
As a native South Carolinian, I have not been looking forward to the sesquicentennial of the dumbest, most self-destructive move in the long and checkered history of my home state. I refer, of course, to the Palmetto State’s boneheaded decision … Continue reading
December 20, 2010
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Give The People What They Want
In my last post I argued that Blue State Liberalism, the form of liberalism that dominated most of the twentieth century in American life, doesn’t work anymore as a political philosophy. That argument gets some powerful support from the latest … Continue reading
December 15, 2010
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Can The L-word Be Saved?
Politically speaking, America may be the most confused country in the world. Millions of people in this country are conservatives and even reactionaries who think they are liberals; we have millions more liberals and radicals who call themselves conservative. It … Continue reading
November 16, 2010
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Pretty in Pink? Obama’s Dark Night of the Soul
Life keeps getting worse for President Obama. It is not just that the conservative press, which never liked him, has a new note of confidence and even joy as it pursues a quarry whose blood reporters think they can smell. … Continue reading
November 8, 2010
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The Weakest President Yet?
[Yesterday saw the beginning of The American Interest's commemoration of the Civil War sesquicentennial over at The Long Recall. I will be following the Civil War era news day by day on our new aggregator, and from time to time … Continue reading
November 6, 2010
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A Sesquicentennial Blog
One hundred fifty years ago the election returns led the morning news: Abraham Lincoln gained enough electoral votes against a split Democratic opposition to elect him the 16th President of the United States. His election would set off first a … Continue reading
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A President At Bay
No president in my lifetime has fallen from heaven to earth as rapidly as President Obama. Others have lost popularity and lost control of Congress, but none fell from such a height. Who can forget the rapturous cries of joy … Continue reading
October 30, 2010
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Literary Saturday: A Tale of Two Henries
The usefulness of history is not one of those truths that Americans take to be self evident. Indeed, there’s a long tradition in the United States of thinking that our job is to bury the past, not to wallow in … Continue reading
October 16, 2010
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The Problem With J Street
With the Israeli government’s latest (and in my view, misguided) decision to start construction on housing in East Jerusalem, the struggle over the future of the peace process has grown more intense. Meanwhile, as Middle East diplomacy heats up, J … Continue reading
October 8, 2010
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Kausismo Or Death? Dems Face Tough Choices Past 2010
Lost in the chatter about the potential GOP tsunami in the midterm elections is one simple fact: if American politics still operated on the rules of the twentieth century, the Democrats would own this political cycle.
September 24, 2010
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Thoughts From a Country Mouse
It’s a little past midnight here in the rolling hunt country of Dutchess County where the Catskills guard the path of the Hudson down to the narrows at West Point. The leaves are beginning to turn this high and this … Continue reading
September 14, 2010
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Save the Planet: Shop Walmart
Shifting my main base of operations from the stately Mead manor in Queens to the rustic Mead hideaway in the rolling hunt country of Duchess County involves a lot of shopping; fortunately for me there is a Walmart just a … Continue reading
September 11, 2010
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9/11, Islam and War
Nine years ago this morning I came up from the subway stop at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue to hear from the breakfast cart vendor that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers in lower … Continue reading
