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We often learn most from people who don't share our worldviews. German Carl Schmitt, a reactionary critic of democracy, provides uncanny insight into the uncivil war of opinion after the 2020 election. Constitutional democracies, Schmitt argues, seek a foundation in legality, that is rule by law, bu...
The Biden administration changed its position on an upcoming Supreme Court appeal dealing with Arizona’s electoral integrity laws, ...
The Electoral College Results 1800 (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) The air is crisp, and the first hints of color are showing in the Blue Ridge, which means that pumpkin spice lattes and the fifty-ninth U.S. presidential election must be around the corner. It’s easy to think that we live in uniquely unsettling political times. But a look at the past shows that the country has weathered political storms in the past and come out the other side, although often battered from the tempest. Encyclopedia Virginia’s entry on the U.S. Presidential Election of 1800 tells the fascinating story of t...
When Rutherford B. Hayes died in 1893, tributes to the 19th president poured in from across the political and social spectrum. Among them was a letter from a youthful black scholar doing graduate work in Berlin, studies that were subsidized by the Slater Fund, an endowment created to promote the education of African Americans. Hayes, one of the fundâs original trustees, had been impressed by the student and persuaded the other trustees to provide financial support. That young scholar was W.E.B. Du Bois, then unknown but soon to become one of the most renowned intellectuals of the early 2...
The racial decency â and irony â of Rutherford Hayes He was a steadfast champion of Black voting rights, yet he presided over the end of Reconstruction. By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated February 15, 2021, 2:59 a.m. Email to a Friend An undated drawing shows Rutherford B. Hayes taking the presidential oath of office in 1877.Library of Congress via The New York Times When Rutherford B. Hayes died in 1893, tributes to the 19th president poured in from across the political and social spectrum. Among them was a letter from a youthful Black scholar doing graduate work in Berlin, stu...