Category: History
Guys Who Didn’t Invent Baseball Part II: Abner Doubleday
Why anyone thinks he did: Part II of a four part series
The Small r “republican” Tradition Offers Something to Religious Left Originalists
Read about cutting edge research from Harvard that both contradicts a “secular” understanding of modernity and supports an egalitarian economic vision of such.
Guys Who Didn’t Invent Baseball Part I: Ideology
or, Everything You Think You Know About the Origin of Baseball is Wrong
Transgender Spirit
Transgenderism is not some new crazy phenomenon coming out of the modern demented, decadent, relativistic West mind. Let’s look at how other cultures view this.
Marcion and Arius: American Political Theology’s Roots
How does Marcion, an early church father, who like Arius was one of the earliest notable heretics, relate to the Christian-Deism that arose in England and America during the Enlightenment period of the American Founding. That’s what I am trying to figure out here.
The Destatuification of a Justice
Or, an opportunity to meditate upon our ambiguous legal history and its uncomfortable place in contemporary political life.
The Shipwreck and Eventual Rescue of the Crew of the Bark Trinity
Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms & Pythagoras
I’m super-interested in this book, just like Bill Clinton is and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson probably would have been.
An Open Letter to My Friends on the Left… about Donald Trump’s Hair, Unfortunately
A look at progressives’ unexpected bad hair day.
John Boswell on Christianity and Same Sex Relations in History
For those wishing for happy endings, his thesis is probably too good to be true.
America Indentured, Sidebar Discussion: How might we improve foreign worker safety conditions
Are the sum of our options truly limited to “happily profit off of others’ indentured servitude,” “forced imperialism,” and “leave them all to rot in poverty?”
Of course not.
America Indentured, Part II: Villains
In which I follow the money in search of an answer to this question:
Who was really responsible for a modern slave state on American soil?
America Indentured, Part I : What it Really Means to be MADE IN AMERICA
In which Mike Huckabee’s comments on the evils and benefits of slavery force me to consider how very far we haven’t come.
Shakespeare in American Politics
Guest Author T. Greer eulogizes the neglect of our literary heritage in contemporary rhetoric.
