John C Calhoun
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The Enduring Value of Calhoun July 09, 2021
Both John C. Calhoun and Woodrow Wilson have recently been canceled by major universities. Yale’s Calhoun College is now Grace Hopper College and the former Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton awaits a new donor for renaming. It is striking that the m...
Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? January 29, 2021
It was not long after the federal Constitution was created in 1787 that many antislavery Northerners began labeling it a pro-slavery document. Parts of it did support slavery — the clause that counted a slave as three-fifths of a person, which gave t...
American Heretic, American Burke January 29, 2021
There are some biographies which are almost impossible to write. Sometimes this is because the subject is guilty of such monstrosities that the empathy required to write a worthwhile biography can undermine the moral judgment a difficult subject dema...
