I’ve always had an interest in the history of history. For one, that historians are even remotely interested in the lives of ordinary people is a relatively modern notion. 3000 years ago, even 600 years ago, the historian was that 1…
Category: American Exceptionalism
American Exceptionalism #44, No Greater Love
(H/T to Pike Hightower, who provided this.) JFK’S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as…
American Exceptionalism #17: The American How-To Book
I’ll get to #’s 1 thru 16 later. We’ve talked about them before. Note the book cover, which I only ran across a week or so ago. It was printed in 1908, in New York, Chicago, and London, but was…
Lawyers’ Wives and Other Reformed Whores
I’m not sure who first used this title, and it may even have been me, in 2009, when I wrote a short essay on “Homer Simpson and the Constitution” at RedState.com The line had nothing to do with the content of…
American Exceptionalism or American Freak show?
I recently watched an interview of Barack Obama in which he discussed the parallel views of reality in American politics. (It was undated, so I don’t know if it was made during his term in office or part of his…