A couple of days ago, I found a mass mailing from the libertarian Independent Institute in my inbox. It included these paragraphs: The 150th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the U.S. Civil War April 12 marked the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War, when Confederates fired on U.S. troops holding Fort [...]
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Of what narrative is the US Civil War a chapter?
Posted by acilius on April 21, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/04/21/of-which-narrative-is-the-us-civil-war-a-chapter/
Seceding from the Nation
Eric Foner is a major historian of the mid-19th century USA and a regular contributor to The Nation magazine. In a recent issue, he reviewed two books about politics in the South during and after the Civil War, Stephanie McCurry’s Confederate Reckoning and Victoria Bynum’s The Long Shadow of the Civil War. This paragraph of Foner’s got me [...]
Posted by acilius on July 30, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/07/30/seceding-from-the-nation/
Looking back, and further back
The June and July issues of Chronicles, the rightwardmost of my regular reads, include a couple of pieces that seem to acknowledge that the basis of conservatism is nostalgia. That isn’t so bad, I suppose; everyone feels nostalgia, and people who are nostalgic for the same things can share a bond, and can sometimes nurture [...]
Posted by acilius on June 25, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/25/looking-back-and-further-back/
The Nation, 30 March 2009
A review of The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills mentions Mills’ concept of “crackpot realism,” introduced in his Causes of World War Three to explain how a group of highly intelligent people could come to believe that each step in a course of action certain to lead to their destruction was the safest, [...]
Posted by acilius on March 20, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/20/the-nation-30-march-2009/
Chronicles, February 2009
Chronicles is often criticized for its “neo-Confederate” bent. The two hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth draws that side of the magazine out in force. Joseph E. Fallon quotes extensively from Lincoln’s friends and associates to the effect that the sixteenth president had little use for Christianity. He then analyzes Lincoln’s use of religious imagery [...]
Posted by acilius on February 8, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/02/08/chronicles-february-2009/
The Nation, 26 January 2009
Eric Foner finds much to praise in Abraham Lincoln, chiefly his “capacity for growth” and his belief that “there was a bedrock principle of equality that transcended race- theequal right to the fruits of one’s labor.” Foner dwells on the Second Inaugural, asking us to imagine the moral courage it must have required for Lincoln to [...]
Posted by acilius on February 7, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/02/07/the-nation-26-january-2009/
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