The heading of this post is in quotation marks, because it’s what the Occupy Wall Street participants chanted as they took over public parks beginning on 17 September, 2011. 17 September is also the anniversary of the U.S. Constitution being … Continued
We’re hearing that question rather frequently from Republican candidates and operatives, and as a political and history junkie, I know where that question is coming from, and more importantly, what Republicans are hoping for when they ask that question. The … Continued
On 6 January 2021, when Congress was convened to certify the Electoral College vote that would make Joe Biden president on 20 January, President Donald Trump held a rally in Washington, D.C. Thousands of his most ardent supporters attended this … Continued
A few months before the fall of Berlin Wall in November of 1989, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published an essay entitled “The End of History?” Fukuyama’s thesis was that with the impending collapse of Communism in Europe, … Continued