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Allen C. Guelzo is a senior research scholar at Princeton University.

November 18, 2019|Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon, Reconstruction, Representative Hamilton Ward

Northerners’ Failed Mission in the Civil War: Saving the South

by Allen Guelzo|13 Comments

Elizabeth Varon’s impressive Civil War history contributes to an emerging new theory about why Reconstruction failed.

March 14, 2018|Abraham Lincoln, David Waldstreicher, Originalism, Paul Finkelman, Slavery

The Constitution: A Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery Document?

by Allen Guelzo|18 Comments

The U.S. Constitution (Derek Hatfield / Shutterstock.com)

The most telling evidence in the debate over slavery in the Constitution is how the pro-slavery forces responded to Lincoln's election.

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

Conservative Nationalism and American Statecraft

A discussion with Colin Dueck

Colin Dueck discusses his new book, Age of Iron, with Richard Reinsch

Liberalism and the Death Penalty

A discussion with Craig S. Lerner

Craig Lerner discusses the political, philosophical, and moral implications of the death penalty.

Encountering Dostoevsky

In Joseph Frank's Lectures, we are taught how to read well, think well, and, as for all grand endeavors, to live with eschatological apprehension.
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Lessons of the French Revolution

Being wholly unschooled in any institution of representative government, the French relied on direct and violent action.
by John O. McGinnis
Sanders Erases the Progressives from History

American socialists do not just aim to move the policies of the Democratic Party to the left, but to repudiate the whole history of American Progressivism.
by Nathan Pinkoski
Britain’s Classicist-Politician

Why did such a brilliantly gifted person waste his talents on politics?
by Theodore Dalrymple
Confronting the “Affordability Crisis”

Whether we are trying to account for government failure, or market failure, we shouldn't double count costs.
by James R. Rogers

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