{"id":56000,"date":"2022-07-22T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=56000"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T00:30:10","slug":"know-your-history-john-calhoun-americas-greatest-political-thinker-since-the-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/22\/know-your-history-john-calhoun-americas-greatest-political-thinker-since-the-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your History: John Calhoun, America&#8217;s Greatest Political Thinker Since the Founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56002\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/07\/calhoun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"213\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amren.com\/features\/2022\/07\/americas-greatest-political-thinker-since-the-founders\/\">America\u2019s Greatest Political Thinker Since the Founders<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>&#8220;Four of Calhoun\u2019s ideas are especially relevant today. The first is that patriotism doesn\u2019t spring from high ideals, but from citizens and the state having a mutual stake in each other\u2019s success. Calhoun\u2019s second main argument is that America\u2019s racially discriminatory policies, including slavery, unify white citizens, protect democracy, and mitigate class differences. Calhoun\u2019s third argument opposed admitting non-whites as citizens of the Union and the pursuit of empire. Finally, Calhoun\u2019s most consequential ideal is that of the concurrent majority. This, presented in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portagepub.com\/dl\/causouth\/calhoun-disquisition.pdf\"><em>A Disquisition on Government\u00a0<\/em>and in a<em>\u00a0Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>is probably the most significant American contribution to serious political science since\u00a0<em>The Federalist.&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Regardless if you do not lean to the Hard Right or not, I highly recommend the new biography of Calhoun entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Calhoun-American-Heretic-Robert-Elder\/dp\/0465096441\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1657862126&amp;sr=8-2\">Calhoun: American Heretic.\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>As the author states, it is a unintentional glance into national decline, but more importantly, it describes the historical reasons for that decline in exacting detail.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Greatest Political Thinker Since the Founders &nbsp; &#8220;Four of Calhoun\u2019s ideas are especially relevant today. The first is that patriotism doesn\u2019t spring from high ideals, but from citizens and the state having a mutual stake in each other\u2019s success. Calhoun\u2019s second main argument is that America\u2019s racially discriminatory policies, including slavery, unify white citizens,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5773,5523,7697,932,1427,4769,475,476,478,479,481,482,486,14057,491],"tags":[14647,1880,14648,8150,9765,490,8729],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}