Pure Democracy
3 out of 4 Americans lived outside the former Confederacy in 1870
American History Series
Review: President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
A book review of Robert W. Merry’s President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
American History Series: Intellectual Change In The 1930s
The modern liberal worldview triumphed over its opposition in the 1930s
American History Series: The Intellectual Counterattack on Caste
The intellectual seeds of our destruction were sown between 1880 and 1920
American History Series: Review: Saints and Strangers
A book review of Joseph A. Conforti’s Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America
American History Series: White Christian Nationalism In Colonial New England
Colonial New England was based on a White Christian nationalist social order
American History Series: Race Relations In Colonial New England
Early Puritan settlers welcomed the extermination of the Indians
Thirties Nostalgia
Populism flourished during the Great Depression and put constant pressure on FDR
America’s Forgotten Populist History
Thomas Frank on the history of American populism
American History Series: Review: The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930
A book review of Roderick Nash’s The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930
American History Series: Review: New World Coming
A book review of Nathan Miller’s New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
American History Series: Review: The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America
A book review of Eric P. Kaufmann’s The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America
Extremism Is Inevitable
Why does extremism recur throughout history?
Reactive Nomads
The eternal Gen Xer
Gray Champions
The final Boomer leaders will be authoritarian, severe, unyielding
Generations
Will the Baby Boomers destroy America?
Turning Points
Consensus Antiracism has plunged America into a new Crisis
American History Series: Cosmopolitanism and the Postwar Consensus
Cosmopolitanism became hegemonic in America in the 1940s and 1950s
The Needless War
The Blundering Generation thesis was correct
American History Series: Critique of Colin Woodard’s Union
The Chesapeake dominated the American Founding and Early Republic
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Sickness of Free Society
In 1856, George Fitzhugh predicted that liberal capitalism would undermine and eventually destroy itself
American History Series: Review: Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society
A book review of George Fitzhugh’s Sociology for the South, or The Failure of Free Society
John Locke and The American Founding
How influential was John Locke in the American Founding?
Response to Thomas Main 3
Sorry, we don’t see it in the Declaration
Response to Thomas Main 2
Progressive liberals conflate their bottomless pit of sin and degeneration with America
American History Series: Review: Union
A book review of Colin Woodard’s Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nation
American History Series: The Southern Revolution of 1861
What is the “successor ideology” to liberalism on the Right?
American History Series: The Revolutions of 1776 and 1861 Contrasted
George Fitzhugh on the American Revolution
Review: The Case for Nationalism
A book review of Rich Lowry’s The Case for Nationalism
American History Series: Review: The Second Founding
A book review of Eric Foner’s The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
American History Series: The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was the coup de grace to the White Republic
American History Series: How Civil Rights Happened
The Northern states continued to press forward with “civil rights” after Reconstruction