Tag: Lincoln

• Hillary Clinton, Stephen Douglas, and the Logic of Success

  Would liberals favoring Clinton over Sanders in 2016 have rooted for Lincoln’s opponent in 1858? My colleague Corey Robin wrote a column earlier this week on  the fallacies and forgetfulness of liberal Democrats who continue to favor Hillary Clinton for the party’s Presidential nominee.  At this point the liberal Democrat case for Clinton essentially comes down to the (dubious) notion […]

  Roy Tsao

  January 29, 2016

  American history, Lincoln, politics

  Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Lincoln

• “Democracy” by Henry Adams

  Henry Adams’s Democracy: An American Novel, was first published anonymously in 1880.  Its author never publicly acknowledged it as his work.  (It goes unmentioned in Adams’s autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, published after his death in 1918).  One hundred thirty-five years later, it retains its hold on readers’  imagination, a classic of U.S. political fiction.  Just a few years ago, it was chosen […]

  Roy Tsao

  March 23, 2015

  Adams (Henry), literature, political ethics, political novels, politics

  Civil War, Democracy, Henry Adams, Lincoln, political ethics, political novels