Sublime

Consensus academics articulated the need for tough men of will in politics, using prose laden with metaphors of sexual prowess.

These epidemics probably constituted the most important geopolitical event of the early seventeenth century. Their net result was that the English, for their first fifty years in New England, would face no real Indian challenge.

But there is a civil, a moral, a federal liberty which is the proper end and object of authority; it is a liberty for that only which is just and good: for this liberty you are to stand with the hazard of your very lives and whatsoever crosses it is not authority, but a distemper thereof.

“All men are created equal”—“government by consent of the governed”—“give me liberty or give me death.” Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories…. Many of the issues of civil rights are very

The principal object of the political tribunals of Europe is to punish the offender; the purpose of those in America is to deprive him of his authority.

A mutiny in the archive.

IN A SINGLE FLASH, the flash of bombs, the policy of the Senate of the United States was exposed as a gigantic mistake. The failure of the world’s most powerful nation to lead—or in general even to cooperate—in efforts, twenty years of efforts, to avert a second world war must be laid largely at the door of its Congress, and particularly at the doo

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.