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Garry Wills

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America’s Best Made-Up Person

On the transformation of Mary Harris into Mother Jones.

by Garry Wills via Mother Jones on June 20, 2024
‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’

In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

by Garry Wills via New York Review of Books on January 26, 2022
The Framers’ Answers to Three Myths About Impeachment

Three misunderstood aspects of our governmental system, and the truth pulled directly from the Federalist Papers

by Garry Wills via New York Review of Books on December 3, 2019
To Keep and Bear Arms

A challenge to the "Standard Model" scholars who hold that the Second Amendment protects individual gun rights.

by Garry Wills via New York Review of Books on September 21, 1995

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The radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, dropped by a US B-29 superfortress Bockscar.

Slave to the Bomb

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

by Erik Baker via The Saturday Evening Post on March 28, 2024

Collage of William F. Buckley by Aaron Martin.

The Conservative and the Murderer

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

by Sam Adler-Bell via The New Republic on March 7, 2022

American Catholic book cover

Americanism and the ‘Roman’ Catholic

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.

by Daniel James Sundahl via The Russell Kirk Center on February 27, 2022

Portrait of William Small, by Tilly Kettle, c. 1765.

The Revolution Whisperer

The overlooked first mentor of Thomas Jefferson.

by Greg Shaw via HNN on February 20, 2022

Abraham Lincoln speaking to a crowd.

Stop Making Sense

Are the truths in the Declaration of Independence really self-evident?

by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on November 8, 2021

Painting of the Parthenon by Frederic Edwin Church

A Story of Use and Abuse

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.

by Arlene W. Saxonhouse via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 28, 2021

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Sunrise at Monticello

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.

by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on July 19, 2021

If This Is Like 1968, Then Trump Is in Big Trouble

Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 2, 2020

Graffito picture of Richard Nixon superimposed on lines an German text.

Richard Nixon, Modular Man

Even knowing every awful thing Richard Nixon would go on to do, you had to respect, as the phrase goes, his hustle.

by Phil Christman via The Hedgehog Review on April 6, 2020

Lithograph of James Madison from Portrait and Biographical Album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, 1891, Wikimedia.

The Founders’ Muddled Legacy on the Right to Bear Arms Is Killing Us

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

by William Hogeland via AlterNet on August 14, 2012

Prior Convictions

Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on April 14, 2008

Trumbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Dusting Off the Declaration

The Declaration of Independence seems to Pauline Maier to be "peculiarly unsuited" for the role that it eventually came to play in America.

by Gordon S. Wood via New York Review of Books on August 14, 1997

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