Given some of my key subjects, I can’t help but be interested in the “occupy” movement that, at the moment, has a few hundred protesters [UPDATE: Now a lot more; I was there on Tuesday] more or less living in Zuccotti Park near the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan, and is apparently starting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘1776’
“Occupy Wall Street” and the History of Democratic Finance Protest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, Alexander Hamilton, American history, finance, Tea Party, Thomas Paine, U.S. Constitution, Whiskey Rebellion on September 29, 2011 | 17 Comments »
“Constitutional” Conservatives v. “Constitutional” Liberals
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, Alexander Hamilton, American history, Continental Congress, finance, historiography, liberals, right wing, Robert Morris, Tea Party on August 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Charles Rappleye, in an op-ed published by the L.A. Times on August 12 (I just caught up with it via the Bangor Daily News), might seem at first glance to be saying pretty much what I’d been saying in my New Deal 2.0 post of August 1 (also on AlterNet and Salon) regarding the framers [...]
Tea Party Chit Chat
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, American history, American independence, conservatives, historiography, right wing, Tea Party, U.S. Constitution, Whiskey Rebellion on May 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
At “Line of Fire,” the blog for Broadside Books, the HarperCollins line of conservative titles edited by Adam Bellow, Michael Patrtick Leahy (editor of the “Voices of the Tea Party” series, co-founder of Top Conservatives on Twitter and the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition) and I are engaging in a civil yet incisive discussion of my [...]
The Founders vs. American Democracy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, American history, conservatives, finance, George Washington, Glenn Beck, historiography, James Madison, John Adams, liberty, Tea Party, Thomas Paine, U.S. Constitution on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s another comment that helps refine the discussion I’m interested in, this time posted on New Deal 2.0 in response to my final “Founding Finance” post there: I am curious where Jefferson (and for that matter Madison, Adams, Washington, and the other main framers) spoke hesitantly about democracy, the people, and the state legislatures. Conservatives [...]
Is Social Democracy French?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, American history, evangelicals, finance, historiography, John Adams, liberals, Tea Party, Thomas Paine on May 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Wow. In the comment thread on Naked Capitalism, regarding my final New Deal 2.0 “Founding Finance” post, the commenter Peripheral Visionary offers the best-informed, most gracefully and concisely written summary I’ve ever seen of the classic interpretation of the American founding from which my work is precisely intended to dissent. This is so commonly believed, [...]
Thomas Paine and the Democratic Revolutionaries: Egypt 2011, America 1776
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, American history, Christianity, Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence, democracy, Egypt, evangelicals, George Washington, historiography, John Adams, religion and the founders, Thomas Paine on February 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
To the young democratic resisters in Egypt, some of whom I’ve heard saying in street interviews that they admire the American Revolution, I want to say something complicating. (No, I don’t literally think they’re taking time out of changing their country and the world to follow my blog — but hey, you never know!) This: [...]
Amendments, mobs, God, rights, guns, Pilgrims, Adams, etc.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, Alexander Hamilton, American history, American independence, Christianity, Christine O'Donnell, civil rights, Declaration of Independence, federal judiciary, Glenn Beck, James Madison, John Adams, left wing, liberals, liberty, Puritans, Samuel Adams, U.S. Constitution on December 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Responding here to a bunch of comments posted during recent months, since I don’t like burying and scattering the discussion: Elites versus the crowd. Working backward and starting with lacithedog’s comment on my “New Deal 2.0″ post. Laciethedog is reading Declaration and comments further on the “New Deal” post here. I appreciate the interest and [...]
New Deal 2.0 Crosspost
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, American history, American independence, Declaration of Independence, evangelicals, historiography, liberals, populism, Tea Party on December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have a brief post on New Deal 2.0 this morning, partly reviewing ideas in my far longer Boston Review piece on the 19th-century war between liberalism and populism, but partly tying that story back to the founding story I tell in Declaration: … Every time liberal commentators open their mouths, no matter what they [...]
“Declaration” on C-SPAN “Book TV” 7/31, 8/1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1776, American history, American independence, Declaration of Independence, film, William Hogeland on July 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The talk I gave on Declaration at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to air this weekend on C-SPAN “Book TV”: Sat. 7/31 at 4:00 PM and Sun. 8/1 at 8:00 P.M. A minor note for the record: I seem to recall the very able Doug Swanson, who put the event together, saying [...]
