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You can’t take the conflict out of politics. Nor should you want to.

Every day, we are inundated with the names of people from the past. When you see an advertisement selling insurance for Lincoln Financial Group, drive down a Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, or read a book review in the Washington Examiner, you see recognizable names that call to mind stories associated with these historical figures. These titles serve as small monuments to their accomplishments and ask us to remember them.

The literature of natural law is complex, copious, and monthly growing vaster.

The Democratic Party began its convention in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 23, 1860. The incumbent president, James Buchanan, was a Democrat from Pennsylvania who had Southern sympathies but opposed secession. Due to a largely disastrous administration, he had no interest in reelection; still, the Democrats, and Stephen A. Douglas in particular, were favored to win the election. Douglas was a moderate who advocated “popular sovereignty,” or the right of territories and newly admitted states to decide for themselves the question of slavery. His challenge at the convention was to pla...

by Tim Lynch Tim Lynch has taught for thirty years at Mount Saint Joseph University in Cincinnati, where he is a professor of History.  He has published extensively in the area of American labor history and protest music, including Strike Songs of the Depression (2001).  Most recently, Tim published To Build a Home: Reflections on Construction (2021) about his experience of building his own home.         The Republican Party may soon live up to its moniker, “The Party of Lincoln,” though not in a way that bodes well for the GOP.  Abraham Lincoln, of course, was the first Rep...