Defending Lincoln’s Critics
I’m not sure how a conservative undertakes to write a pro-Lincoln apologetic without a single word pledged to exculpating ostensible Fourteenth Amendment grievances from “small-government” opprobrium. But National Review’s indefatigable Rich Lowry has done it in a piece called “Defending Lincoln.” I’m just unconvinced that the article delivers as promised, is all. In so “defending,” …