Jonah Goldberg, still reeling from the harsh tones and rank punditry of Brother Stirewalt and Eli Lake, has turned to the most euphonious man in podcasting—who conveniently happens to be a Lincoln scholar on the side—to dig deep into the question: Who was Abraham Lincoln? Join Jonah and Allen Guelzo as they dive into Civil War alternative histories, Lincoln’s origins, economic and moral attitudes toward slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln’s reading, Andrew Jackson, Whigs, 19th-century conservatism, Shakespeare, Burke, Lincoln’s war leadership, and the Declaration of Independence.
Show Notes:
—Allen Guelzo’s website
—The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom
—The Golden Thread Substack
—Guelzo: The Political Writings of Abraham Lincoln
—Previous Allen Guelzo Remnant
—Remnant: Edmund Burke Was Not a Romantic | Interview: Yuval Levin
—Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address
—“Americans and Their Revolution: The First 100 Years – Allen C. Guelzo”
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