It is an arresting image on Mount Rushmore: Theodore Roosevelt the Rough Rider, man of action, and lover of his country, taking his place alongside three of the greatest men to occupy the presidency – men whom he professed to …
President Obama is a man of history—that is, he places himself quite deliberately in historical context. His much-derided self-comparisons with Abraham Lincoln come immediately to mind. But those are clearly superficial. More telling is his choice of Osawatomie, Kansas for …
Coming after the first progressive wave of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge’s White House tenure boldly challenged their expansive ideas about executive power specifically and federal power generally. Coolidge’s presidency was marked by an understanding of the power …
The 1912 election fundamentally transformed American politics. This transformation and the events which led to it are the subject of Sidney Milkis’s excellent book Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy. Milkis’s book is both …
The 1912 election fundamentally transformed American politics. This transformation and the events which led to it are the subject of Sidney Milkis’s excellent book
. Milkis’s book is both lively and profound, a joy and an education at the same …
He may be modeling his re-election efforts after those of Harry Truman in 1948, but entering the last year of his term, President Barack Obama is taking considerable efforts to also wrap himself and his presidency …
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Ronald Pestritto on Progressivism’s transformation of the Constitution. Pestritto, a noted author on Progressivism and its intellectual origins, discusses the philosophical, political, and religious composition of the Progressive movement and how it has shaped our “Living Constitution.”
At the centennial of the 1912 election, pundits and politicos tell us, we again confront a constitutional moment. For the Right, the existential choice is between entrepreneurialism or social democracy, America or Europe. For the Left, it is between the 99 and 1 percent or, in President Obama’s less unhinged version, between a common future that’s “built to last” and unbridled, destructive capitalism.
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