The Federalist Society, Abraham Lincoln, and the Misinterpretation of American History
The Federalist Society has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost the entirety of the present national conservative movement. This hit home for me on May 31, in an essay by Leslie McAdoo Gordon, which appeared at thefederalist.com. I read their Webzine almost every day, and occasionally it is the source for items of value and good information. But Gordon’s ill-informed attack on Confederate iconography was not one of them. Peddled as a defense of retaining “Antietam” as the name of an American naval vessel, she begins her piece: “There is a move these ...