Lincoln 3
A Local Look at the Meanings of the Founding: A Review of The Nation that Never Was
After excluding less plausible interpretations like Roosevelt’s, I think the Old Testamentish version of the Founding is the most defensible: the Founders left us some good principles which later were…
Breaking our Concentration: Lessons from Jefferson, Hamilton, and Lincoln on Local Economies
Lincoln wishes to promote Jeffersonian virtues by Hamiltonian means. In a Jeffersonian vein, Lincoln wants to encourage small, independent operations that free people from dependence on “the man.”
The Blind Senator from Minnesota
It was difficult to say whether they were on the far left or the far right or both simultaneously, but you were safe to identify them as radical, whichever political…