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American Conservatives have defined themselves against a straw figure of “the crazy leftist” for…
If the GOP was a party comprised of thoughtful, evidenced-based politicos who thought they needed to craft good arguments to win elections…
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Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and those ubiquitous Gold advertisements on Fox News
Andrew Jackson was most famous for his war on the Bank of the US, the “swamp” of the 1830s. One cultural manifestation of that war is that…
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An Argument FOR continuing the WH Correspondents’ Dinner — Because the Nazis weren’t funny
Michelle Wolf’s scathing performance at last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner has provoked the usual calls for this event to be…
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History 342–01: The History of American Conservatism
Spring 2018
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Is Trump slow-walking the nation into a constitutional crisis/Mafia-style war?
Some thoughts inspired by today’s vintage Trump Tweet.
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Why Conservative “Slippery Slope” arguments undermine American democracy (and have always been…
I’ve taught a course on the History of American Conservatism for seven years now, and I’ve become increasingly aware of how central…
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Will Donald Trump be the Republicans’ Jimmy Carter, or Millard Fillmore?
What follows are some speculations on what sort of President might follow Trump, based on an admittedly schematic reading of American…
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It’s All About the Children: What anti-NRA Democrats Can Learn from the GOP’s approach to the…
In the mid-1990s Newt Gingrich’s GOP captured a big chunk of the “moderate Independent” vote by imploring parents to prioritize the needs…
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Donald Trump's Blood and Soil State of the Union
Stephen Miller's White Nationalism in full, but subtle display