The Party Of Calhoun?

With regard to the Impo-Trent mess, I had left a couple of comments over the left few days at RAWbservations and Off the Kuff hinting about John C. Calhoun and the nature of American conservatism and the GOP. And I had pretty much decided this morning that I should bang out a longer post on the topic (since I only hinted at the very strong connection between so many Southern paleos and the political theory of John C. Calhoun).

And what did I discover during my morning reading on NRO? A fine article by Mac Owens dealing with Trent Lott and the question of whether the GOP is the Party of Lincoln or Calhoun. He even gets in a dig at the Progressives (who were, at least in their rejection of natural right, the progeny of Calhoun), which makes me smile. It's a short article -- much too short for the topic, really -- but it definitely lays out the issues.

This is the sort of stuff that sent me to grad school.

[Posted at 21:28 CST on 12/17/02] [Link]