Posted in Clio, tagged borders, economics, georgia, politics, water on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Maybe someone should remind the Georgia General Assembly that it cost Ulysses S. Grant a few thousand casualties last time someone tried to take Chattanooga.
The Georgia General Assembly voted today to pursue their claim that Tennessee needs to be moved a mile north. Or, rather, that Georgia deserves a mile of Tennessee, especially the [...]
Posted in Clio, tagged politics on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Democracy has no forefathers, it looks to no posterity, it is swallowed up in the present and thinks of nothing but itself.”
–John Quincy Adams, 1833
Posted in Clio, tagged Adam Smith, politics, Thomas Paine on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished rereading Tom Paine’s famous pamphlet, Common Sense (1776). In the introduction to this version, Isaac Kramnick noted the similarity between Paine’s conception of government, and that of Adam Smith, who gave the world his Wealth of Nations in 1776 as well. Paine wrote on politics, and Smith on economics, but both conceived [...]
Posted in Calvin, Clio, tagged abortion, evangelical, politics, religion on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know much about Nicholas Kristof, but he wrote an interesting article in today New York Times. It is the most succinct statement I’ve seen from an observer on the waning of the religious right and the increasing concern with social justice among evangelical American Christians. It is interesting that anyone watching the anti-abortion [...]
Posted in Clio, tagged City on a Hill, Emory, history, John Winthrop, politics, Puritans, Ronald Reagan on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things I get to do as a PhD hopeful here at Emory is to teach a class. In my case this is the first half of the U.S. History survey, titled “Foundations of American Society to 1877.”
On Wednesday I gave a lecture that used John Winthrop’s famous image of New England as [...]
