“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for...
On August 16, 1971, John Dean sent a memorandum to Lawrence Higby. Both Dean and Higby were players within the Nixon Administration at the time, as Dean was the White House Counsel and Higby was an assistant to the White House Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. Printed...
Due to the more conversational and spontaneous aspects of The Republican Gun, the readers are often treated to a bit of, as I like to call it, “inside baseball”; a look behind the scenes at the writing process and our ordinary lives. So, yes, as you mentioned in your...
Throughout your online conversation you have noted the interesting juxtaposition between Soviet communism/Marxism and American republican capitalism. For Marx, the end goal of the Communist revolution was to end history (a la Hegel) and to seemingly establish a serene...
In an effort to stay solely focused on the topic of free speech in my last bit of writing, I neglected another point I wished to address. So, I’d like to gather up that free-floating thought before it’s swept away, never to be remembered. The American poet Ruth...
