Jonathan Rowe: “Did the Ancient Jews in fact have a Republic?”
Did the Ancient Jews have a “republic”? I don’t think they did. But what about contemporary leading theologians?
Tagged: History
Linky Friday #186: Guns, Bombs, & Dead Raccoons
This Week: Cities, Matriculation, Wildlife, Crime, and War!
Why Americans Don’t Play Soccer, and Everyone Else Does Part III
Why American chose Rugby, immediately before altering it nearly beyond recognition
The Cubs Win the Pennant!
…in 1885. And they’re not the Cubs yet.
But Cubs fans need to take what they can get.
Linky Friday #184: Here On Planet Earth
This Week: Japan, Africa, Nordica, Islands, Historia, and Space!
Movie Review: Jack Strong
A part biopic, part spy thriller, and mostly true story from Poland during the Bad Old Days of the Cold War.
Linky Friday #176: Eggheadery
Since the world outside of the mind sucks, let us explore the life of the mind.
Linky Friday #165: Blood, Guts, & Money
This week! Economics, Violence, Gender, Cities, Entertainment, and History!
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.
Predicting Judicial Greatness in A Theoretical Justice Barack Obama
Were a hypothetical President Hillary Clinton to nominate him to the Supreme Court, would Barack Obama’s service as President be reason to foresee that he’d become one of the great Justices on the Supreme Court? What about his lack of prior judicial experience or his lack of scholarly publications?
The Destatuification of a Justice
Or, an opportunity to meditate upon our ambiguous legal history and its uncomfortable place in contemporary political life.
Linky Friday #152: Russian History
This Week: Russia, Media, Housing, Resources, Gender, and History!
Shakespeare in American Politics
Guest Author T. Greer eulogizes the neglect of our literary heritage in contemporary rhetoric.
The Persistence of Myth
In which Presidential peccadilloes, parables of patrimony, and persuasive proof pool to peer into a prosaic psyche.
Struggles Teaching History
Student-led inquiry of controversial topics has its pitfalls, but it should be at the heart of implementing the Common Core curriculum.
