American Commonwealth is a newsletter about history, politics, and the democratic values we must embrace––and hand down to the next generation––in order to sustain our free form of government.
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Reform for Racial Justice with Steve Phillips
“As our case is new,” Lincoln said in 1862, “so we must think anew and act anew.”
Today I’m excited to kick off a new interview series for “Reforming American Democracy,” my new project designed to build a concrete agenda for democratic re...
Top 10 Reforms for Building a Thriving, Egalitarian American Democracy
History must guide the reform of our magnificent democracy
As the summer winds down, I’m most excited to kick off a project called “Reforming American Democracy” with two Vanderbilt undergraduates named Erina Haque and Eva Schneider.
This...
Postmortem on the Maine Convention
As the Maine convention and the Democratic National Convention of 2024 both vividly display, our politics is driven by fear, not intelligent democratic process
This is a short essay to close the loop on the recent Maine convention that cr...
A Terrible Intimacy: The Hidden Depths of Racial Injustice
History must guide the reform of our magnificent democracy
I have a book to recommend. It’s called A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South.
It’s a new work of history, but it’s also a criminal justice thriller abo...
The Maine Convention and the Future of Democracy
History must guide the reform of our magnificent democracy
As we self-reflectively await the conclusion of the Dark Age of Trump, reform is in the air.
Among the many change priorities before us—voting rights, education, the rigged econo...
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I am a doctor and political historian who is convinced that ethical democratic values are the glue that holds free government together. History teaches that when these values dissipate democracies descend into demagoguery, corruption, and violence.
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