Entries by Jack Trotter

Weekend Read: A Colonial History of African-Americans

Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

Since the 1989 publication of his widely admired but controversial Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer has been a figure to reckon with. Subsequent publications such as Paul Revere’s Ride (1994) and Washington’s Crossing (2004) have further established his reputation as an American historian of the first rank, one whose works […]

Weekend Read: Remembering Walter E. Williams

Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

The Enemy of the Nanny State Addressing a Boston anti-slavery audience in 1865, abolitionist Frederick Douglass asked, “What shall we do with the Negro?” The answer he provided was a favorite of the conservative economist Walter E. Williams, though if Douglass were to utter it today he would probably be condemned by Black Lives Matter and deplatformed […]

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