Glenn C. Altschuler
Articles by Glenn C. Altschuler
Requiem for the Religious Right (and a Primer for Progressives)
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Mike Huckabee—the shape of things to come?
SOULED OUT: RECLAIMING FAITH & POLITICS AFTER THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Princeton University Press, 251 pages, $24.95
“I hope we can answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ,” Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, proclaimed in 1998. Ten years later, Mr. Huckabee remains committed to a fundamentalist agenda on abortion, evolution school prayer and gay marriage. But his tone—and tactics—have changed.
He always gets asked “the God questions,” Mr. Huckabee complained to Liane Hansen of National Public Radio, when he’d rather be talking about public policy: “I was a governor ten and a half years and led in education, rebuilding our road system, health care [and] never really governed with a sense of religious fervor. I run for president and that’s all people want to talk about.” read more »
Thar She Blows! 19th-Century Court Case Harpoons a Whale of a Story
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A New York whaleman’s drawing of a sperm whale, circa 1810.
TRYING LEVIATHAN: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK COURT CASE THAT PUT THE WHALE ON TRIAL AND CHALLENGED THE ORDER OF NATURE
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A Sympathetic Look at Grasso the Greedy
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Richard Grasso, a.k.a. “The Little Guy in the Dark Suit.”
In King of the Club, Charles Gasparino, a correspondent for CNBC and former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, traces the rise and fall of “The Little Guy in the Dark Suit.” read more »
Latter-Day Jeremiah Bashes Bush, Pentagon
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Chalmers Johnson (b. 1931) taught political science and history for 30 years at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Berkeley.
In July 2004, Zogby International Surveys interviewed 3,300 Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco read more »
Adamantly Against Patriotism- A Plea for Individual Audacity
More than 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville detected in democracy a tendency toward despotism. read more »
Adamantly Against Patriotism— A Plea for Individual Audacity
More than 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville detected in democracy a tendency toward despotism. read more »
A Fanciful Neocon Version Of Our Expansionist History
On July 4, 1821, John Quincy Adams declared that the United States “goes not abroad, in search of read more »
A Fanciful Neocon Version Of Our Expansionist History
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John Quincy Adams, circa 1825.
On July 4, 1821, John Quincy Adams declared that the United States “goes not abroad, in search read more »
Democracy and Its Perils: Votes and Voters Go Astray
Does American Democracy Still Work? by Alan Wolfe. Yale University Press, 216 pages, $22.
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Democracy and Its Perils: Votes and Voters Go Astray
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Does American Democracy Still Work? by Alan Wolfe. Yale University Press, 216 pages, $22.
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A Terrorist Attack on the City, 85 Years Before Sept. 11
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John J. McCloy, hero of The Detonators, who later became known as
It can happen here. read more »
A Terrorist Attack on the City, 85 Years Before Sept. 11
It can happen here. read more »
A Skyscraper (in Theory) And Its Myriad Meanings
The Empire State Building was a miracle of Depression-era America. read more »
A Skyscraper (in Theory) And Its Myriad Meanings
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The Empire State Building was a miracle of Depression-era America. read more »
Toppling Foreign Leaders: The History of a Bad Habit
A foreign correspondent for The New York Times who has reported from more than 50 countries, Stephen read more »
Toppling Foreign Leaders: The History of a Bad Habit
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The first victim of U.S.-sponsored regime change: Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
A foreign correspondent for The New York Times who has reported from more than 50 countries, Stephen read more »
The Perils of Scaremongering: A Post-60's Epidemic of Panic
In the United States, the 1960’s lasted until about 1975, when substantial numbers of Americans tu read more »
The Perils of Scaremongering: A Post-60’s Epidemic of Panic
A nightmare from 1978: David Berkowitz, a.k.a. Son of Sam.
In the United States, the 1960’s lasted until about 1975, when substantial numbers of American read more »
Loving, Latter-Day Tocqueville Takes Democracy’s Temperature
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As Bernard-Henri Lévy strolled along the edge of a field in Michigan abutting Highway 94, a p read more »
Loving, Latter-Day Tocqueville Takes Democracy's Temperature
As Bernard-Henri Lévy strolled along the edge of a field in Michigan abutting Highway 94, a police read more »
A Feel-Good Version of History Salutes the Deserving Winners
In this pungent and partisan book, John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of history at Yale University, com read more »
A Feel-Good Version of History Salutes the Deserving Winners
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John Paul II and Lech Walesa.
In this pungent and partisan book, John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of history at Yale University, com read more »
A Brilliant Entrepreneur, Ford Was a Lousy Populist
Henry Ford had a better idea. Three of them, in fact. read more »
A Brilliant Entrepreneur, Ford Was a Lousy Populist
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Henry Ford in 1900: He understood the culture of consumption better
Henry Ford had a better idea. Three of them, in fact. read more »
Two Historians, One Hard Task: Unraveling the Riddle of Reagan
The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan, by John Ehrman. read more »
Ivory Tower vs. Seat of Power: Leo Strauss and the Straussians
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne Norton. read more »
What He Did for His Country, In Crisis and From the Podium
Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. read more »
Second-Guessing the Founders, Dissing the Electoral College
Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America , by George C. Edwards III. read more »
Preaching to the Choir, Damning "Bush World" Perfidy
Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush's America , by John Powers. read more »
