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  • James J. Sack on Right-Wing Hatred of Dissenters in the 18th century

    James J. Sack on Right-Wing Hatred of Dissenters in the 18th century

    The European Right in the Era of Republicanism The attitudes and thinking-patterns of intellectuals on the political Right in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century remain as they are in today’s American Right. From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain In James J. Sack’s From Jacobite to Conservative, speaking of the “ubiquitous right-wing hatred of…

  • A Critical Look at Hayward’s Review of the Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood

    A Critical Look at Hayward’s Review of the Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood

    Late to the party Wood’s body of work will remain preeminent for some time in the historiography of the American Founding. But it begs to be superseded by an equally large-scale treatment that does not shy away from treating the founders as thinkers and statesmen, rather than as 18th-century ideologues.” “Unlike today’s liberals who quote…