The Party of the Living Dead

Ricochet ^ | January 31, 2015 | Paul A. Rahe

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[tflabo]

And his sycophant, drooling enablers in the media and fellow goose stepping power mad demoRat$.

[gusopol3]

If gas goes down another dime , his approval bumps over 50%

[2ndDivisionVet]

It has stabilized here at around $1.85 a gallon.

[originalbuckeye]

It went up 30 cents/gallon in AZ today.

[txhurl]

Walker push-article.

[matthew fuller]

Can you name a bright, young, up-and-coming Democratic Congressman or Senator?
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This one got my attention-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

[matthew fuller]

[P-Marlowe]

It was a 33 minute speech.

[tillacum]

I hope and pray that the Republican wannbees will not tear one another apart during the campaign. I hope they can find one, among themselves, who represent conservative America and back that one to the hilt. So many times in the past Republicans dig deep dirt trenches around their Republican opponent to make themselves look better and brighter. We’re then stuck with the lessor of what would have been a stronger, conservative American believing choice.

[rockrr]

Nearly all of his speeches have been exceedingly self-referential.

Self-reverential too ;')

[Verginius Rufus]

Paul A. Rahe is probably familiar to most FReepers. He is now a professor of history at Hillsdale College, but previously taught for many years at the University of Tulsa. He has a Ph.D. from Yale, where he wrote a dissertation on Greek history under Donald Kagan.

[ronnie raygun]

And we thought there were just manbeasts in the rat party

[garjog]

[garjog]

Elected to office at age 21. Looks like she never had a job. The ideal democrat presidential candidate.

[China Clipper]

It was a 33 minute speech.

I thought so. That was a three minute summary

That man has never given a three minute speech in his entire life....

[AZLiberty]

Not from what I saw. Costco in Gilbert had regular for 165.9.

[matthew fuller]

"Elected to office at age 21. Looks like she never had a job. The ideal democrat presidential candidate."

Multiple tours of duty in the Middle East, served as Captain, many medals- but never had a job? You seem somewhat dim.

[Jack Black]

Paul A. Rahe is probably familiar to most FReepers. He is now a professor of history at Hillsdale College, but previously taught for many years at the University of Tulsa. He has a Ph.D. from Yale, where he wrote a dissertation on Greek history under Donald Kagan.

Thanks. I am not familiar with him, but I thought this was an excellent article. I mailed it to my associates, in fact.

[Verginius Rufus]

Paul Rahe is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992).

Donald Kagan is a conservative. I don't know if any of his other protégés are. Kagan was at Cornell but left in disgust at how the university handled the radical students there in the late 1960s, or so I have been told. His students from the Cornell years include Charles Hamilton (Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University) and Richard Berthold (Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico). His students from the Yale period include Jennifer Tolbert Roberts (now at CUNY), Rahe, Peter Krentz (now at Davidson College), and Barry Strauss (now at Cornell).

Berthold was the focus of unwanted notoriety after a very ill-considered attempt at humor on 9/11/2001 led to an uproar--he retired about a year later, maybe unwillingly.