The Almost-Chosen President
Abraham Lincoln is America’s greatest and most important president. Although a contrarian might like to assert George Washington, himself a great president, the honest reality is that…
Proclaiming Emancipation: How Washington and Lincoln Prepared the End of Slavery in America
The Eric Voegelin Institute is hosting William B. Allen, Dean Emeritus, James Madison College at Michigan State University, to speak how Washington and Lincoln prepared the end…
Eminence of Governing
The collective memory and the enduring vision of a great leader is a subject not solely reserved for the history books, for college lectures, nor for commemorative…
Statesmanship and the Dangers of Civil Religion
I recently attended a conference on statesmanship. Truth be told, there are reasons to be ambivalent about statesmanship. While public service is a great virtue, the statesman…
Recovering Lincoln’s Ancient Faith
Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman. Joseph R. Fornieri. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. When Abraham Lincoln died the Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, is reported…
From Magna Carta to Abraham Lincoln
Obviously, the representative ruler of an articulated society cannot represent it as a whole without standing in some sort of relationship to the other members of the…
Havers Replies to Lincoln Review
Professor Glenn Moots concludes his review on the critical note that my study of Lincoln’s usage of Christian charity will be valued only by readers who need…
More Lincoln; Less Political Debate
Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love. Grant N. Havers. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. The central argument of Professor Havers’s new book is…
Lincoln, Charity and “We, the People”
They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant…
Americanism: The Genesis of a Civil Theology (Part II)
With the exception of Washington, all the Founding Fathers had, of course, to travel the road from the controversial to the noncontroversial sphere. Franklin, Jefferson, and Lincoln…