Are the origins of the United States religious and political, or did economic motives drive the early colonists?

The President veered left, Congress veered right, then the people voted for balance. That gives Clinton the opening to define his new synthesis.

The consensus view that America's origins are ideological and religious is insufficient to explain this country. The role of economics, capitalism, and wealth are equally important, if not more.

However low one's opinion of Richard Nixon, that opinion will almost certainly be lower after reading James Rosen's The Strong Man.

The revival of conservatism, drawing upon the richness of American exceptionalism, explains why America has refused to make peace with the modern welfare state, why it remains a military superpower, and why Americans remain religious people.

Reviews Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George Marsden, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by Mark A. Noll, and Lincoln, by Richard Carwardine.

Christopher DeMuth--thinker, strategist, administrator.

What virtues exist in liberal historian Gordon Wood's books?