Promising Renewed Greatness: Slogans from Two Insurgents

Published April 4th, 2016 by Peter Kinder

‘Make America Great Again’, Donald Trump’s slogan, has many ancestors. I found another insurgent candidate with resonant mottos in Guy de la Bedoyere’s wonderful The Real Lives of Roman Britain…

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‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’: A Lesson on History and Global Warming

Published June 12th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

Last weekend, I went to my 50th boarding school reunion. It was an altogether wonderful and wonder-filled three days. But I had something on my mind, something…

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‘America in the Hands of a Professional Military’

Published April 20th, 2011 by Peter Kinder

Few of the Minute Men at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, had ever been regular soldiers. A number had served as militiamen along side British professionals in the…

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