Deep States
The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.
Wilfred M. McClay is the Victor Davis Hanson Chair of Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, and author, most recently, of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Encounter Books).
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