For the site today, Jay Cost, author of Democracy or Republic? The People and the Constitution, has written a characteristically thoughtful rebuttal to a trollish article by Michael Lind (published, unsurprisingly, in Compact), in which Lind urges Americans to “Forget the Founding Fathers.”

Cost takes Lind’s argument — that looking to the principles of the American founding for guidance is largely a waste of time, and that those who do so are in a “cult” — more seriously than it deserves. It seems designed to inflame. But Cost’s rebuttal transcends Lind’s rhetoric. At a time of widespread consensus that there is ...

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‘Forget the Founding Fathers’? No, Thanks

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21.11.2023

For the site today, Jay Cost, author of Democracy or Republic? The People and the Constitution, has written a characteristically thoughtful........

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