Culture Clash: No More Taxes vs. Charity and Justice

Nothing is more exciting to a historian than living in a time when two great systems of thought collide. On one hand we have a great, animated, public debate about taxes. Outraged Tea Party folks capture images of the American Revolution and dumping British tea in...

Demagogues Keep Alabama at the Back of the Line

“Demagogue: a person who stirs up the people by appeals to emotion and prejudice in order to become a leader and achieve selfish ends.” That’s the Webster’s New World Dictionary definition of demagogue. It is a strange word bequeathed to us by...