The actual details of history demonstrate noble, freedom-loving motivations in the U.S. founders that went far beyond any economic interest or concern.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has attacked history lessons in Florida, dismisses slavery in his 2011 book as a “personal flaw” of the Founding Fathers.

His method for assessing the continuing utility of the Constitution is to “get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers.” Jacobs wants to be “the original originalist” — that is, to ...

Even for Robert Kagan, who specializes in sweeping generalizations, his new book is reductive, inflammatory, ... A Founding Father’s Stirring Condemnation of Slavery. Joseph Loconte. July 4, 2024.

DeSantis throughout the book is dismissive of criticism that the Founding Fathers are tainted by their failure to end the enslavement of Black Americans, and he described the preservation of ...

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Journalist Ari Berman says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated power in the hands of an elite minority — and that their decisions continue to impact American democracy today.

The new book “Invoking the Fathers: Dangerous Metaphors and Founding Myths in Congressional Politics” by Dr. Sarah Kornfield of the Hope College communication faculty, published this month by Johns ...