King Lincoln
In light of the recent release of the Lincoln movie, here is an excellent essay by Joe Sobran on "King Lincoln". It can be accessed here.
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- Published: 17 December 2012 17 December 2012
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Is America Too Big?
Is America too big? In this fascinating video, Donald Livingston and Kirkpatrick Sale raise an interesting question: is America simply too big? Livingston has thought long and hard about this issue, and Sale is the author of one of the most seminal works published on the question of human scale. The video can be viewed here.
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- Published: 11 December 2012 11 December 2012
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Cicero on the Loss of a Republic
Cicero could have written this today. Astounding. In this short snippet from his De Re Publica, Cicero notes that we can use the term "republic" long after the republic is gone. How sad. The piece is at the wonderful online journal, The Imaginative Conservative, and can be accessed here.
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- Published: 27 October 2012 27 October 2012
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Were the Anti-Federalists Right?
I have found that sometimes "Forewords" and "Introductions" can be overlooked gems. From time to time on this site I will point out a Foreword or Introduction to a book. Recently, I was reminded that Joseph Sobran wrote the Foreword to an edition of The Anti-Federalists (Regnery, 1999). Sobran outlines what is really quite obvious: The Federalists have been proven wrong, and the Anti-Federalists have been proven right. The Anti-Federalists warned that if the Constitution was ratified it would lead to the consolidation and centralization of political power, and that the States would lose their liberty and their freedom to govern themselves. In short, they predicted the situation we now live in. Given the season, Sobran's wise words are worth pondering.
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- Published: 19 October 2012 19 October 2012
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