"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Thursday, July 25, 2002 Radical History: Harvey Klehr and John Early Haynes write in The New Criterion of the leftist orthodoxy of today's historical profession, while Ronald Radosh writes in National Review of the red-diaper pedigree of one of the nation's most acclaimed historians.
Attempting to restore needed balance is The Historical Society, a scholarly association based at Boston University that seeks to "revitalize the study and teaching of history by reorienting the historical profession toward an accessible, integrated history free from fragmentation, over-specialization, and political proscription."
Physical labor for oneself was the perfect arena in which to match word with deed, and it grounded the entire Greek notion of both physical and mental excellence the day laborer who worked for wages and the wealthy, idle, and absentee property owner alike were marginalized in cultural, military, and social terms. And because, unlike later political theory, the Greeks believed constitutions were supposed to improve the moral quality of the populace, it made perfect sense that the equilibrium found in yeomanry should be replicated on a community level: the family that produced food on its own, improved its own parcel of ground, and sought to maximize production without exploitation of its peers produced citizens ideal for the responsibilities of constitutional government, the challenges of shock warfare between phalanxes, and the independence necessary to ward off challenges from both the wealthy and poor. What followed were the social, political, ethical, and military institutions of the city-state itself that promoted progress within the careful confines of existing communitarian institutions.
![[SMMMHDH]](http://www.mgilleland.com/music/smmmhdh.png){kind=small}
