Timothy Snyder on the History Behind the Ukraine War
In his book, The Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder intends to warn us about the threats to ‘freedom’ in America, Europe, and Russia. He reminds us that the war really…
In his book, The Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder intends to warn us about the threats to ‘freedom’ in America, Europe, and Russia. He reminds us that the war really…
In exchanging Jesus for Barabbas, the people chose a practical terrorist over The One who did not seem likely to fulfill their political dreams any time soon. The big news…
…opposed to Radical Reconstruction.] Several other border states adopted their own emancipation rules. On December 6, 1865, the number of ratifications by states reached the required number, and on December…
…that thirty years ago I was rather involved in something called ‘Christian Reconstructionism’, which was similar in many ways, from a Calvinist point of view. I confess I don’t really…
…the Civil War. Since the Reconstruction Amendments, including the one of 1868 I mentioned, no President or Congress has dared to defy the Supreme Court, no matter how bizarre the…
…a ‘covenant nation’. Rushdoony didn’t seem to think so. Some Reconstructionists – and non-Reconstructionists – believe it is. The one Religious Right issue I never got into was ‘prayers in…
…Reconstructionists, R. J. Rushdoony and Gary North. They seemed to have the easy answers that I wanted. So the Christian Reconstruction view dominated my life in my 30s, during which…
…states, like Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, that had not gone for a Republican presidential candidate since Reconstruction. They resisted putting Catholicism and Judaism alongside Evangelical Protestantism, Liberal Protestantism,…
…second was my introduction to ‘Reconstructionism’ and my subsequent move beyond it. The third was my exposure to the writings of Francis Fukuyama. As a child, I attended Sunday School…
Today is the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York City. In the U.S., the event seemed to me to have an effect on the results of the…