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Property tussles in the moneyed enclaves of Long Island are nothing new, but the battle to preserve the homestead of Pyrrhus Concer raises questions of whose history gets to be honored.
During the opening reception of Serbia's brand new embassy in Washington, D.C., Gabriel Escobar of the State Department boasted to the crowd, which included Serbian first lady Tamara Vucic and Ambassador Marko Duric, that relations between the Balkan nation and the United States have "never been better." The comment from Escobar, the deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, comes amid the Biden administration's public support for the European Union's facilitation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Debs' life—from locomotive fireman, to trade unionist, to socialist candidate for American president, to class war prisoner—holds crucial lessons for today’s workers.
Elihu Root (1845–1937), William Howard Taft (1857–1930), and Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. (1850–1924) were leading members of the Republican Party during the Progressive era of the early 20th century. They strove to preserve the core tenets of American constitutionalism from the largest ambitions of Progressivism.
Although it is readily apparent that conservatism is united in its principled hostility to modern Progressive Liberalism, it is often more difficult to pin down just what the movement stands for. Johnathan O’Neill suggests that a focus on defending and preserving the Constitution could unite the otherwise fractious conservative movement. In this spirit, he examines four early conservative responses to Progressivism, all of which continue to have supporters today: Burkean traditionalism, Southern Agrarianism, libertarianism, and constitutional conservatism. While the first three had a straine...