"[T]he very people who write so disparagingly about it either do not understand it, or I suspect even more, understand…"

"What the Democratic Party has most liked to say about itself—that it is the party of the working man, the voice of th…"

"[V]ery little has changed in the fundamental ideology of the Democratic Party since Jackson's day."

"The attempt by eleven southern—and slaveholding—states to secede from the Union in the winter and spring of 1860-61 p…"

"But secession struck to an even deeper level, to the very roots of popular government. The seceding states made their…"

"It was not Abraham Lincoln who invented the nanny-state; it was that son of the Confederacy, Woodrow Wilson. That Ame…"

"We live in a cynical age."

"I remember a rusher; not on a sports team. A rusher who carried an American flag, the regimental flag of the 54th Mas…"

"[A]bsent Lincoln's proclamation, not a single fugitive slave would ever be other than a fugitive, rather than a legal…"

"Defending slavery deprived the Confederate soldier to the same claim to nobility, but not to tragedy."