Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“his other hand. Sensitive to his guest’s affliction, Churchill realized that “every step” was” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“When Lincoln was running for the House of Representatives from Illinois, he was charged with being “a scoffer at religion,” wrote the historian William… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch’d with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“There was, of course, a more immediate point to frequent gatherings of lawmakers, diplomats, and cabinet officers at the president’s table. It tends to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
