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MAGA's Intellectual Roots: A Movement 300 Years in the Making

By Michael Schwarz May 10, 2024 at 1:42pm

Legendary Christian author C.S. Lewis once described the Book of Psalms as a literary and spiritual inheritance from another era.

“In reading them,” Lewis wrote of the Psalms, “I suspect that we have our hands on the near end of a living cord that stretches far back into the past.”

Indeed, that same “living cord” often connects us to our most cherished political ideas and traditions.

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Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.