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Allen Guelzo is a professor of history and director of the Civil War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College and is the author of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (Simon and Schuster, 2004).

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

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

by Allen Guelzo|17 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.

Borne Back to the American Founding: A Conversation with George Will

A discussion with George F. Will

George Will discusses the meaning of the Conservative Sensibility in American politics.

Dismantling the Leftist Academic Complex: A Conversation with Roger Scruton

A discussion with Sir Roger Scruton

Scruton's crime was to have attempted to take the New Left seriously, finding it severely wanting, if not absurd.

Politics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport

A discussion with David Davenport

David Davenport discusses how we lost "the cool, deliberate sense of the community" in making public policy and embraced the war metaphor.

Why Higher Education Is a Cartel: A Conversation with Todd Zywicki

A discussion with Todd Zywicki

Todd Zywicki joins this episode to discuss the bad economics and perverse regulatory framework of higher education.

The European Union and the Fate of Nations

Unless elites propose to elect another people, as Bertold Brecht joked, they'll just have to stop calling it “far right.”
by Titus Techera
Constitutional Text and State Sovereign Immunity

Many of the Supreme Court’s decisions as to state sovereign immunity are problematic, but there is an originalist basis for some of those decisions.
by Mike Rappaport
Donald Trump and the Political Philosophers

Can political philosophy help us think about Trump and contemporary America?
by Paul Seaton
Borne Back to the American Founding: A Conversation with George Will

George Will discusses the meaning of the Conservative Sensibility in American politics.
by George F. Will
Joseph Ellis’s American Monologue

In Joseph Ellis’ view, it’s just fine for us to love the Founders, but not for anyone to understand them in ways that might derail the march of progress.
by Brian A. Smith

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