Lepore’s book reads like an effort to create a storyline that could help us to restore a lost world, but it is not history.
Richard Samuelson
The authority to proclaim a Thanksgiving might seem trivial to us. But it is, in fact, fraught with meaning.
The college-admissions scandal enrages conservatives, who detest the concentrated power that today’s “best schools” represent; but we always had an elite.
If we take the Fourteenth Amendment to mean what Michael Rappaport and others argue, some strange consequences follow for resident aliens.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, we will have to go back to the messy compromises of politics, which might actually avert a new disunion.
The rationale for what is now called “originalism” has chiefly to do with the legitimacy of the 1787 Constitution.
One can be “woke” or one can be self-aware, that is, aware of man’s political nature. One cannot be both, and this puts SJW's beyond satire.
In 1796, in the midst of the donnybrook over the Jay Treaty, President Washington asserted what we now call “executive privilege .”
Two Hundred Forty years ago, Christmas Eve, was a desperate time for America.
The more government does, and the more aspects of our lives it touches, the more moral ideas and actions are implicated in federal law.
Richard Samuelson is associate professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino.