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Posts Tagged: Thomas Jefferson

The call for America to be purified by blood echoes back to the Founding Fathers. Trump is a chapter in that enduring story.

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” wrote Jefferson.

By Andrew Gimson | 8 January 2021 | 158 comments

Writing brief lives of America’s Presidents taught me that Trump is far from being the first outlandish one

Historians concentrate on such great men as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, and ignore the more Trumpian figures who reached the White House.

By Andrew Gimson | 5 March 2020 | 50 comments

Daniel Hannan: The Johnson tape, the Field incident. So much was said about both. But why the silence about the Kirklees arrests?

The investigation, after all, concerns the systematic rape of underage girls. The non-reaction to it says much about our culture and times.

By Daniel Hannan | 26 June 2019 | 207 comments

Profile: Damian Collins. Running energetically (and sometimes tumbling over) as he pursues Leave campaigners

A Conservative MP who has seen much of Collins says: “I like him. He’s more intelligent and thoughtful than his public manner gives one to expect.”

By Andrew Gimson | 18 October 2018 | 21 comments

Chris DeRose: It’s right for Confederate memorials to be removed

Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and the rest are commemorated for one thing and one thing only: attempting to destroy their country in the name of slavery.

By Chris DeRose | 24 August 2017 | 117 comments

Daniel Hannan: The hip hop musical that revitalises a star of the American Revolution

Jefferson may have had the better lines, but Hamilton got the big calls right – and now he has the more stirring verses, too.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 27 April 2017 | 22 comments

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