The American Minervan

Tag: radicalism

  • Abolitionist David Walker turns Fire into Radical Revolution against Slaveholding Republic

    Abolitionist David Walker turns Fire into Radical Revolution against Slaveholding Republic

    David Walker turns ancient philosophy of Fire into radical revolutionary action against the slaveholding Republic DAVID WALKER’S APPEAL AS THE FULLEST AMERICAN EMBODIMENT OF THE ARCHAIC PHILOSOPHY OF FIRE David Walker’s Appeal (1829) is indeed the fullest and single most American embodiment of the ancient tradition of FIRE come down to us through the philosophy…

  • 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 But it begs to be superseded by an equally large-scale treatment that does not shy away from treating the founders as thinkers and statesmen, rather than as 18th-century ideologues.”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…