William Hogeland

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.

The main issue they were debating was how democratic a representative body should be. And their answer was “not very democratic at all.”

To make a more perfect union, don’t look to the Founding Fathers.

Were the founders really warning us about Trump, or were they just playing politics, too?

On October 15th, a tweet by Bunk contributing editor Kevin Levin touched off this fascinating exchange between several historians on the subject of popular history. Among the topics it covered were novelty, craft, context... and the musical Hamilton.

The “now more than ever” tendency is everywhere.

Expansionism, and sending the military into others' lands, is a critical component of American republicanism, and a factor in independence itself.

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.

A review of a handful of new books that embody the new liberal originalism.

A case of 18th-century politicking has stymied our ability to deal with a 21st-century crisis.

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.