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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘American independence’
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 »
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 [...]
Constitution Shmonstitution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American history, American independence, Christianity, Christine O'Donnell, Declaration of Independence, historiography, liberals, religion and the founders, Tea Party, U.S. Constitution on November 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This is the third in a series of posts about how people from Tea Partiers to pro-choice, anti-gun liberals invoke and rely on what they call “the Constitution,” often without being able to say anything very specific about it. The first post was on the First Amendment and religious freedom; the second was on the [...]
John Adams the Yankee v. Samuel Adams the Puritan
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American history, American independence, Christianity, Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence, evangelicals, historiography, John Adams, religion and the founders, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine on September 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Over at American Creation, there are a couple of related posts from the always thought-provoking Jonathan Rowe on topics with great appeal for me. One is a link to an older post, on Rowe’s other site The One Best Way, about John Adams’s liberal ideas on religion; the other is on the illiberality of the [...]
“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 [...]
Founding-Era Reading List: Leftist History, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American history, American independence, Declaration of Independence, Dirk Hoerder, E.P. Thompson, Elisha P. Douglass, evangelicals, Georges Rude, historiography, Joseph Ernst, left wing, Marc Egnal, Stieg Larsson, Tea Party, Thomas Paine on July 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(Part One is here. ) From a modest but notable spike in page views for my first entry in this category, I get the feeling these lists might have some actual value. I’ll interlink them as I go. (The “Tory History” list, coming soon, will be briefer and might be interesting too. Others may follow [...]
