Adam Smith

@aipsmith

Historian. I write books about the US in the 19th century; present occasional BBC radio programmes; & worry about the world.

Oxford, UK
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2009.

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    This is how our representative democracy dies. The Senate is a grossly unrepresentative institution in an age of near-unprecedented nationalization of politics & polarization along party lines

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    🤔 So what about the 35 senators who voted to convict Andrew Johnson?

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    All in all a very cogent speech.

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    And on the substance, his killer line is that Trump would not have acted as he did had the name of the businessman with dealings in Ukraine not been Biden.

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    Romney makes the absolutely correct point that impeachment was not intended only to deal with criminal conduct but a betrayal of the public trust.

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    4. velj

    As voting results in the are plagued by apparent technology issues, explores the history of the Democratic Party and explains why its past system for electing a leader was not so different to today’s...

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    Here's my explainer about how there are actually 3 DIFFERENT WAYS TO COUNT THE VOTE IN IOWA and why you should care about this.

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    Britain is smaller and weaker than the EU. In today's world bigger and stronger players, like the EU, US and China, get their way. It really is as simple as that.

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    I think this is probably what means by "post-liberal politics"? ;)

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    - 100 days, 100 objects. Find them all in my new book, out April 2020 Available to preorder

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    Applications are now open for current or recently-completed doctoral student to deliver the 2020 Iwan Morgan Lecture on 4 June 2020! To apply, send a CV and a one-page lecture proposal to the Chair of Convenors, David Cox (d.g.cox@soton.ac.uk) by Friday 7 March 2020.

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    I just gave a radio interview to a news programme in Singapore (yes, I know, I know) and told them whoever wins the Trump's likely to win in November anyway.

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    N.b. “Damning” is not the same as “damaging”

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    How about a cricket match here? This is Qaqlasht, Chitral, Khyber Paktunkhwa, Pakistan 🇵🇰

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    Today is Candlemas. For some, it represents a celebration of the return of light after winter

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    Far more interesting, because unusual, than the failure of remain to add to their support since 2016 is the failure of Leavers to do so. After most successful electoral revolutions the numbers who claim to have supported it all along rise. Not this time, so far at least.

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    Saying things like this are “the whole problem” seems to me to be a major part of “the problem”

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    31. pro 2019.

    Slavery, abolitionism, free labor, Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass: a thorough critique of from Richard Carwardine, distinguished historian of antebellum and Civil War America:

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    Thank you for coming to last night to talk about James Baldwin & William Buckley, whose confrontation seems as relevant now as it did in 1964.

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    31. sij

    In 1978, Roy Jenkins (then President of the European Commission) went to a hurling match with Jack Lynch (then Taoiseach). As described in his memoir, European Diary, 1977-1981.

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