The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and American historian Gordon Wood (1933-2026) delivered a 2007 speech for the John Locke Foundation on key lessons from the American Revolution.
Being "School Choice Week," a Top 5 list laying out all the bad arguments frequently made against the school-choice movement seems appropriate.
In her classic novel Little Women, Louisa May Alcott has her character Margaret gaze bitterly at the family’s frostbitten garden and proclaim that “November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.” The protagonist, her sister Jo, offers a pensive reply: “That’s the reason I was born in it.” I don’t see November that...
Growing up undercover Persian is one of the most surprising things for people after getting to know me. I was raised Persian since around five-years-old. My step-father is from Iran and married my mother. Daily, I experienced the Persian Iranian culture through the food, language, music, holidays, and people. It blended in well with my life as...
Unrest. Distrust. Despair. These words characterize just a few of the many struggles the past 12 months have delivered. Thomas Paine’s words could’ve easily been written today and rung just as true: “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Last week, on April 12, we honored the 245th anniversary of the signing of the Halifax Resolves....
Government institutions have strayed from their traditional trustworthy roles.
RALEIGH — In early 2009, with President Barack Obama riding a high off a recent electoral win, would anyone have predicted that the American political scene in 2011 would look so much different? It’s a fascinating development for Jonah Goldberg, the National Review Online editor-at-large and author of The New York Times No. 1 best-seller Liberal Fascism. Goldberg discussed the issue with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH -- After much controversy over the first draft of new social studies standards, the second version is a large step forward. It is no accident that the second draft give much more emphasis to the Founding Era.
RALEIGH — We learn in school about the separation of church and state. We’re told it’s an idea the Founders embraced as they developed the early structures of American government. Philosopher, theologian, and author Michael Novak tells a different story. An American Enterprise Institute scholar in religion, philosophy, and public policy, Novak recently discussed “Presidents and Providence” during a Headliner speech in Raleigh for the John Locke Foundation and the Ralph McInerny Center. He also discussed the Founders’ religious beliefs with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Today, Carolina Journal’s Mitch Kokai interviews Gordon Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Brown University professor who recently addressed a North Carolina History Project Headliner luncheon in Raleigh. He also discussed his recent book, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different. (Go to http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
Think you know the whole story about George Washington crossing the Delaware? Probably not unless you have read a recent, Pulitzer-winning book by the eminent historian David Hackett Fischer.
