by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 4, 2022 | abortion, Indan history, Native Americans, Originalism, Second amendment, Thomas Jefferson
My senior year of college I had a roommate, a graduate student in physics, who belonged to a small Christian denomination that held that musical instruments should not be played in church. No guitars or tambourines, no pianos or organs. These things were not mentioned...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 22, 2012 | Adams and Jefferson, Albany Plan, Alvin Josephy, Benjamin Franklin, David McCullough, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
I finished reading David McCullough’s John Adams, and despite the fact that he omits early colonial dealings with Native peoples, I enjoyed it immensely. It was good to see and hear how narrow the passages to the government we got were—how, as McCullough says in other...
