Commentary - Chicago Tribune - 8/27/2023

Dwight Eisenhower created a unifying brand of politics that the GOP needs today

Lincoln Would have Had an Answer for the "Originalists"

Part 1:

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184101

Part 2:

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184243

10/9/2022 (2 part series)

History News Network, October 23, 2022

https://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/columns/ac-ce-richard-striner-putin-20220320-yvtkqkjtm5dqzh4g6u6p5b5g4m-story.html

Richard Striner: The West has options for dealing with Putin the madman | COMMENTARY - Capital Gazette, March 20, 2022.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/177003 

"Could Trump Overturn American Democracy?" History News Network, August 23, 2020.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/175948

"What if Trump Refuses to Leave?"  History News Network, June 14, 2020.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174580

“Does Lincoln or Trump Represent the Conscience of the Republican Party?”  History News Network, March 15, 2020.

http://bit.ly/3cxJim4

Radio Podcast:  “Lincoln and his Antithesis in Today’s White House,” Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen, March 5, 2020

Richard Striner’s articles for the on-line New York Times “Disunion” series on the Civil War  

All of the following essays are accessible through this link:  

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/richard-striner/ 

•  “The Radicalism of Lincoln’s Ten Per Cent Plan,” New York Times, “Disunion” series, December 13, 2013

• “Hurrah for Old Abe,” New York Times, “Disunion” series, January 29, 2013

• “Lincoln’s Great Gamble,” New York Times, “Disunion” series, September 21, 2012

• “Lincoln’s Plan Emerges,” New York Times, “Disunion” series, July 23, 2012

• “Lincoln’s Abolitionist Wedge,” New York Times, “Disunion” series, April 11, 2012

• “Abraham Lincoln’s Audacious Plan,” New York Times, “Disunion” series, January 5, 2012

• “Lincoln’s Threat to the Supreme Court,” New York Times “Disunion” series, March 3, 2011

• “How Lincoln Undid the Union,” New York Times “Disunion” series, December 13, 2010

Cover Articles for The American Scholar magazine, published by Phi Beta Kappa   

• “How to Pay for What We Need,” Winter 2012, https://theamericanscholar.org/how-to-pay-for-what-we-need/#.XkLTOmhKiHs

• “A Brief History of Secession:  Why Calexit Might Not Be As Crazy As You Think,” Spring 2017, https://theamericanscholar.org/a-brief-history-of-secession/#.XkLTf2hKiHs 

 Articles by Richard Striner for History News Network (HNN): 

• “Is Trump the Worst President in History?”  History News Network, July 28, 2019, http://www.hnn.us/article/172612 

• “When Did the GOP Move to the Dark Side?”  History News Network, December 9, 2018, http://www.hnn.us/article/170529

• “Trump is Mentally Ill,” History News Network, January 21, 2018, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168032

• Article series:  “America in Crisis,” History News Network. Part One:  “Our Grotesque Predicament,” June 19, 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166176

• Part Two:  “Is a Second Civil War in the Making?”  June 25, 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166239

• Part Three:  “Donald Trump ascribes to his Victims what he does to Them.”  July 2, 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166289

• Part Four:  “Dangerous Flaws in the Structure of our Government could lead to our Undoing.” July 9, 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166347

• Part Five:  “Both Parties have forgotten the Lesson of the Great Depression,” July 16 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166414

• Part Six:  “How will we get out of this Mess?”  July 23, 2017, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166448

• “What Libertarianism Means Today,” History News Network (HNN), part three of a series, July 19, 2015, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159760

• “When Libertarianism Became An Excuse For Plutocrats,” History News Network (HNN), part two of a series, July 6, 2015, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159759

• “This Is Where Libertarianism Gets Its Ideas From,” History News Network (HNN), part one of a series, June 29, 2015, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159758

• “The Surprising Evidence that Woodrow Wilson was Suffering from a Brain Malfunction before the Stroke that Crippled Him,” History News Network (HNN), June 15, 2014, http://www.hnn.us/article/155787

• “Woodrow Wilson’s Blunders as a Wartime President,” History News Network (HNN), June 8, 2014, http://www.hnn.us/article/155786

• “Woodrow Wilson’s Four Mistakes in the Early Years of World War I,” History News Network (HNN), June 1, 2014, http://www.hnn.us/article/155810.

• “Is There Intelligent Life Among Republicans?”  History News Network (HNN), October 21, 2013, http://hnn.us/article/153662

• “Can American Conservatism Be Salvaged?”  History News Network (HNN), March 18, 2013, http://hnn.us/articles/can-american-conservatism-be-salvaged

• “Whatever Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Customer Service?”  History News Network (HNN), August 6, 2012, http://hnn.us/articles/whatever-happened-good-old-fashioned-customer-service

• “Too Many Monsters in Our Closet,” History News Network (HNN), July 30, 2012, http://hnn.us/articles/too-many-monsters-our-closet

• “Was the Economic Miracle of World War II Fact or Fiction?”  History News Network (HNN), May 14, 2012, http://hnn.us/articles/was-economic-miracle-world-war-ii-fact-or-fiction