Thank goodness for Margaret Leech.For as Sean Wilentz, one of the countryĢƵ great academic historians, has written, “When describing history, more is at stake than the past.”Past, present, and future is more like it. How aware would we moderns be, and how significant would we view it, had ...
It was a Sunday in April, a church service in Brownsville. The pastor, Presbyterian minister R.M. Wallace, told his congregants, “It is the duty of all citizens to aid the constitutional authorities in maintaining the supremacy of the Constitution and the laws.“The national government,” ...
Republican lawmakers who publicly refute the 2020 election results that placed Joe Biden in the White House have some explaining to do if they are to be taken seriously and, more importantly, if they are to save the experiment of American democracy.Democracy requires truth-telling. It operates ...