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U.S. Constitutional Democracy in the World

January 23, 2017
Jay Sexton

What does the U.S. founding of 1787 look like from an international perspective? When and why did U.S. constitutional democracy matter to the wider world? These questions speak to our current global age. More than that, they offer a starting point for the coming generation of scholarship that has already begun to change our understanding […]

The Unexceptional Nation: Donald Trump and Making America Great Again

January 23, 2017
Hilde Eliassen Restad

Since World War II, U.S. foreign policy has been operating under the assumption that the world needs U.S. leadership not just because of American military might, or because of the dollar, but also because of American ideals. This foreign policy tradition and its justification in American exceptionalism is opposed by the new American president. In […]

Jefferson and Religious Toleration

January 20, 2017
Ari Helo

Defining the specifically American tradition of religious freedom inevitably brings us back to Thomas Jefferson. In the final analysis, religious freedom meant nothing less than freedom of conscience to Jefferson. With Mr. Trump’s election to the presidency there seems no quick way out of the ongoing American culture wars regarding abortion, gun control, same-sex marriage, […]

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