John Moser is an Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Masters in American History and Government at Ashland University and an Adjunct Fellow of the Ashbrook Center. He is the author of three books: Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars , Presidents from Hoover through Truman, 1929-1953: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents, and Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism. Dr. Moser received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Written by John Moser
- Lech Walesa and the OWS - November 29, 2011
- You Choose the Caption! - November 21, 2011
- What REAL Protests Look Like - November 14, 2011
- Moonlight and Magnolias - November 11, 2011
- "To decry the decline of America is to know nothing about beer." - November 11, 2011
- Less bang for the buck - November 3, 2011
- Further Thoughts on Inequality - October 28, 2011
- Thoughts on Inequality - October 21, 2011
- American Civil War Charlie Sheen Bonus Round - October 19, 2011
- Forget Wall Street--Occupy DC! - October 19, 2011
- The Importance of a Liberal Arts Education - September 14, 2011
- And the award for creepiest campaign image goes to.... - June 30, 2011
- Why Americans don't know history - June 21, 2011
- Quote of the Day - June 13, 2011
- The "Fair Trade" Scam - May 15, 2011
- Think the oil market is volatile? Try onions. - May 13, 2011
- What's Going on with Panetta? - May 5, 2011
- Thought for the day - May 4, 2011
- Why I'm Not Celebrating - May 3, 2011
- Keynes vs. Hayek, Round Two - April 28, 2011
- Now We Know - April 24, 2011
- The Problem with Big-H History - April 24, 2011
- Krugman on Taxes - April 24, 2011
- Before the "Death Panel" claims... - April 7, 2011
- The first rule of Jane Austen's Fight Club is... - March 27, 2011
- The Best Statistics You've Ever Seen - March 23, 2011
- Keeping Radiation in Perspective - March 20, 2011
- Mr. Obama's War - March 19, 2011
- Words of Wisdom - March 2, 2011
- Collective Bargaining and School Performance - February 20, 2011
- Fallout from CPAC - February 15, 2011
- On Wealth and Poverty - February 2, 2011
- More Wisdom from Eisenhower - January 26, 2011
- Why we need liberal education - January 24, 2011
- Nice goin', John - January 13, 2011
- Hmmm, I wonder... - January 11, 2011
- Keynesianism at Work - January 7, 2011
- Weird Science - January 5, 2011
- It's finally happened. - January 4, 2011
- Today it's Happy Meals, in the 1950s it was comic books - November 29, 2010
- Is Obama a Keynesian? - November 4, 2010
- The Latest Threat to Democracy - October 18, 2010
- "Nazi, Schmatzy" - October 11, 2010
- Progressivism: Theory vs. Practice - October 11, 2010
- Political Quiz - October 7, 2010
- Save the Earth. Or Else. - October 1, 2010
- German Reparations? - September 30, 2010
- The Real Shame of Ground Zero - August 19, 2010
- Keeping Cool in DC - August 4, 2010
- It's Official! - June 15, 2010
- Reacting to the Past - June 14, 2010
- Want to increase your country's average life expectancy? - June 1, 2010
- Big Drop in Infant Mortality - May 24, 2010
- The Use and Abuse of the Term "Antigovernment" - May 22, 2010
- Don't believe the hype - April 25, 2010
- Predictable Consequences, part IV - April 23, 2010
- So naturally the answer is to give them MORE power - April 23, 2010
- Left-wing violence in New Orleans - April 20, 2010
- Authors being bitchy - April 20, 2010
- The importance of taxes - April 15, 2010
- What it really means to rein in spending - April 12, 2010
- "People would do it if we got like five bucks." - April 12, 2010
- Stop looking for a Golden Age - April 7, 2010
- A new environmental crisis - April 1, 2010
- Just to clarify.... - March 30, 2010
- The dirty little secret about the health insurance mandate - March 27, 2010
- Predictable Consequences, part III - March 27, 2010
- Predictable Consequences, part II - March 24, 2010
- Some folks who won't be thanked in the victory speeches, but should be - March 22, 2010
- Remember Cuba? - March 18, 2010
- Debt, debt, debt - March 15, 2010
- Toyota Feeding Frenzy - March 13, 2010
- Obama's No-Win Situation - March 12, 2010
- How Private Citizens Helped Catch "Jihad Jane" - March 11, 2010
- Just when you thought it couldn't get worse for New York Democrats... - March 3, 2010
- Who said it? - March 1, 2010
- A George Wallace for the 21st Century - February 27, 2010
- Prognosticator of the Milennium - February 27, 2010
- Lay off Scott Brown, already! - February 23, 2010
- Why global warming is bad - February 19, 2010
- Has the Final Countdown begun on Countdown? - February 18, 2010
- Miscellanea - February 16, 2010
- I mean, seriously, could it? - February 14, 2010
- Could it be? - February 13, 2010
- Don't mention the weather. - February 11, 2010
- Say it ain't so, Cap. - February 10, 2010
- "Serving the Goals of Al-Qaeda"? - February 9, 2010
- Now Why Would He Go and Do That? - February 2, 2010
- A Threat from Tehran - February 1, 2010
- Corporate Fascism? - January 30, 2010
- The Best Week Ever - January 21, 2010
- Another Shot at AVATAR - December 22, 2009
- It's Michael Bellesiles all over again - December 7, 2009
- Current Events Quiz - December 3, 2009
- The Passing of a Genuine Hero - September 13, 2009
- A Modest Proposal on Health Care - September 11, 2009
- To Beijing with Love - September 9, 2009
- Krugman, Nixon, and Campaign Finance Reform - August 31, 2009
- Who can take your money... - August 28, 2009
- How Much is Health Care Reform Going to Cost? - August 26, 2009
- "Death Panels" - August 26, 2009
- U.S. Debt Clock - August 25, 2009
- The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get....Richer - August 22, 2009
- Remember when Dissent used to be Patriotic? - August 21, 2009
- Hey, John Mackey: Open a Whole Foods in Ashland! - August 18, 2009
- Next: Cap-and-Trade - August 17, 2009
- So Crazy, it Might Just Work - August 16, 2009
- Is Our Health Care System Killing Us? - August 11, 2009
- Eighty-five years after his death... - August 10, 2009
- Help on the Health Care Bill - August 7, 2009
- A Second Opinion Well Worth Listening To - July 31, 2009
- Where is She Now? - July 21, 2009
- More from the National Health Service - July 5, 2009
- Brain Teaser - June 4, 2009
- Anti-War, or Anti-Bush? - April 16, 2009
- Lack of Activity--from Me, and from Cyclones - March 14, 2009
- The Bare-Knuckles World of College Debate - August 24, 2008
- The Actual Cost of a 23-cent Pizza - May 11, 2008
- Food or Health Care? - April 30, 2008
- Pitchforks and Torches - April 17, 2008
- Mary Ann, We Hardly Knew Ye - March 12, 2008
- Eliot Spitzer gets busted for seeing hookers.... - March 12, 2008
- Gary Gygax, RIP - March 4, 2008
- Back to the 70s? - March 2, 2008
- The Drew Carey Project - February 7, 2008
- It’s McCain - February 7, 2008
- What’s a Classical Liberal to Do? - January 21, 2008
- China as Paper Tiger - December 30, 2007
- Another Benefit of Big Retail Chains - December 10, 2007
- We’ve lost Biggs, Red Leader - December 9, 2007
- Lessons from Blackwater USA - October 30, 2007
- James Wadsworth on Social Security - October 26, 2007
- Why do People Hate Hillary, part II - October 19, 2007
- A Question for Paleocons - October 6, 2007
- History Lessons and Civic Literacy - September 19, 2007
- The Skeletor Show - August 12, 2007
- Telling it Like it is - August 9, 2007
- The Nifong Show - June 21, 2007
- Was it really thirty years ago? - May 29, 2007
- What the polls say about immigration - May 18, 2007
- And I had to settle for wearing a monocle at my wedding - May 14, 2007
- The Latest from the Religion of Peace - May 10, 2007
- Looking for Something to do in Mansfield? - May 8, 2007
- Medicare, the Environment, and Life Expectancy - May 7, 2007
- Let’s Play "Guess the News Source" - May 2, 2007
- Grade inflation as civil rights issue? - April 26, 2007
- Charming to the last - April 25, 2007
- Zebulon Vance on the demoralization of the Confederacy - April 23, 2007
- Reflections on my hometown, immigration, and assimilation - April 23, 2007
- Sic transit gloria mundi.... - April 19, 2007
- Has Homeland Security Gone too Far? - April 16, 2007
- I have an idea...let’s talk about Lincoln! - March 31, 2007
- A Surge by Ron Paul? - March 27, 2007
- Are our Brains our Worst Enemies? - March 23, 2007
- The End of the Litmus Test? - March 4, 2007
- Pizza Box Football - February 19, 2007
- School Choice in India - February 13, 2007
- On the Boob Tube - February 8, 2007
- Will on Global Warming - February 6, 2007
- "Adults Only" in New Jersey - January 20, 2007
- Heres Where We Need the "Surge" - January 16, 2007
- And to think I didnt believe them.... - November 20, 2006
- Milton Friedman, RIP - November 16, 2006
- Occidentalism and the Intellectuals - November 7, 2006
- Conservative Political Correctness at Penn? - November 6, 2006
- My Day as JFK - October 15, 2006
- Fighting the Good Fight at the AHA - October 6, 2006
- This is "Dhimmi" - September 25, 2006
- The Euston Manifesto - September 15, 2006
- Senate Baron - August 11, 2006
- The Coolest Wristwear in Town - August 10, 2006
- The Battle for Connecticut - July 31, 2006
- The Happiest Place on Earth - July 21, 2006
- UN Complicity in Hezbollah Kidnappings - July 21, 2006
- Russia--The Place for Fakes - July 16, 2006
- Confessions of a Young Pyromaniac - July 15, 2006
- New Lesson Plans for High School History - June 27, 2006
- Explaining the Peter Pan Complex - June 25, 2006
- Ayn Rand U? - June 21, 2006
- An Unconvincing "Apology" - June 14, 2006
- Saddam: From Criminal to Clown - May 28, 2006
- Some Sources on Immigration - May 25, 2006
- Theyre Assimilating - May 23, 2006
- Bernardini Wins the Preakness - May 20, 2006
- More People = More Prosperity - May 20, 2006
- The Beast Didn’t Starve - May 10, 2006
- Gas about Ethanol - May 5, 2006
- Jean-Francois Revel, RIP - May 3, 2006
- We Need Immigrants - April 19, 2006
- Ecco il Nemico - April 15, 2006
- On German Restaurants - April 11, 2006
- Back from Boston - April 11, 2006
- Demotivators - March 30, 2006
- Can We do to Al-Qaeda what Britain did to the IRA? - March 23, 2006
- More of my Vendetta against "V for Vendetta" - March 15, 2006
- And you thought Syriana was bad... - March 9, 2006
- Hooray for Capitalism - March 2, 2006
- Where’s McCarthy when you need him? - March 1, 2006
- They’re not just illiterate, they’re innumerate - January 22, 2006
- "Noises Off" - January 8, 2006
- How to Lose Friends and Influence People - December 26, 2005
- Why Didnt He Ask Congress? - December 20, 2005
- Is Bono Listening? - December 11, 2005
- Remember Pearl Harbor - December 7, 2005
- Kennedy and Bush, Vietnam and Iraq - December 6, 2005
- Have Republicans Become the Party of Watergate? - December 6, 2005
- Does Big Government Make People Unhappy? - November 10, 2005
- Guelzo Appointed to National Council on the Humanities - November 8, 2005
- Trends in Secondary Education - October 19, 2005
- Stick to the Center, Report Warns - October 7, 2005
- Public Opinion and the Korean War - September 30, 2005
- Lesson Plans on World War II - September 29, 2005
- And you thought academia was bad - September 27, 2005
- Hillary and the International Freedom Center - September 25, 2005
- Global Warming--on Mars? - September 21, 2005
- Ontario Premier Rejects Sharia Law - September 13, 2005
- "Where was God?" - September 5, 2005
- An Armed Society is a Polite Society - August 23, 2005
- The Problem with "Hate Crime" Laws - August 21, 2005
- Peter’s Address - August 17, 2005
- A Day at Knoebels - August 13, 2005
- The Perils of "Acting White" - August 7, 2005
- The Current Moral Revival - August 7, 2005
- Take Back the Memorial - July 15, 2005
- The Real Risk of Shark Attack - July 1, 2005
- Likely Effects of Kelo - June 26, 2005
- A serious blow to private property - June 23, 2005
- Welcome, Foolish Mortals.... - June 23, 2005
- Conservatives are Still Winning - June 22, 2005
- Schiavos Autopsy - June 16, 2005
- Tagged, Dag-Nab It! - June 8, 2005
- John Kerrys Grades - June 7, 2005
- Sith Happens - June 1, 2005
- An Exercise in Moral Equivalence - May 27, 2005
- Britains Yob Problem - May 25, 2005
- More on Jon Bean and "Handout Hysteria" - April 29, 2005
- Fear and Loathing in Carbondale - April 28, 2005
- On Being "Overweight" - April 20, 2005
- Lileks on Benedict XVI - April 20, 2005
- Back from the OAH - April 4, 2005
- Interesting Statistics - March 9, 2005
- Hating the Enemy, Then and Now - March 3, 2005
- Liberals and the Problem of Evil - March 2, 2005
- Bryan and Mencken on Academic Freedom - February 28, 2005
- New Poll Data - February 28, 2005
- European Jews Move Right - February 20, 2005
- Thunder on the Right - February 17, 2005
- Theyre All Above Average - February 14, 2005
- Congratulations to Allen Guelzo - February 12, 2005
- Academic Freedom in Colorado - February 12, 2005
- The Crimes of Saddam Hussein - February 6, 2005
- This is the Enemy - February 3, 2005
- A New Definition of "Solvency" - February 3, 2005
- Voter Irregularities in Wisconsin - February 3, 2005
- Ralph Luker Responds - January 29, 2005
- Max Boot on Seymour Hersh - January 28, 2005
- In Defense of Tom Reeves - January 25, 2005
- Cows, Constitution, and the Ten Commandments - January 18, 2005
- Education vs. Literary Theory - January 11, 2005
- The Decline of Political Cartoons - January 10, 2005
- The Dangers of Overturning Roe v. Wade - January 10, 2005
- Wacky Warning Labels - January 6, 2005
- Why We Dont Trust Government - January 5, 2005
- More Democratic Navel-Gazing - January 3, 2005
- In Defense of Spanglish - December 22, 2004
- Freedom-Haters - December 2, 2004
- Eyebrow-Raiser of the Week - November 22, 2004
- Why Health Care Costs So Much - November 17, 2004
- America Okay, Say Americans - November 16, 2004
- Academias "Liberal Group-Think" - November 14, 2004
- The OAH and Academic Freedom - November 13, 2004
- The Generosity Index - November 10, 2004
- Whats Next? - November 7, 2004
- Those Lousy Liberals (and Conservatives) - November 5, 2004
- ...and thats that. - November 3, 2004
- The End is Near - November 3, 2004
- An Attempt at Voter Suppression - November 1, 2004
- Like, Dylan TOTALLY Endorsed John Kerry! - October 31, 2004
- Why I am Voting for Bush - October 30, 2004
- OBLs Endorsement of Kerry - October 30, 2004
- An Observation about Trick-or-Treating - October 29, 2004
- More on Kerry and the Military - October 28, 2004
- Might Kerry Reinstate the Draft? - October 27, 2004
- Voter Fraud as Disenfranchisement - October 27, 2004
- More on the Missing Explosives - October 27, 2004
- So, what was Kerrys stand on Iraq again? - October 26, 2004
- Reporting from Michigan - October 24, 2004
- Who’s Going to Tell P-Diddy? - October 21, 2004
- Kerry Wont Repeat Gores Mistake - October 21, 2004
- Why Boot is Supporting Bush - October 14, 2004
- Ugly Threats - October 12, 2004
- Zogby - October 12, 2004
- The Nuisance of Terrorism - October 11, 2004
- Howard Wins in Australia - October 9, 2004
- What the Iraq Survey Group Really Said - October 7, 2004
- The Era of Small Government is Over - October 6, 2004
- Feedback on the Debate - October 1, 2004
- A Defeat for the Patriot Act? - September 30, 2004
- Who Supports the Draft? - September 30, 2004
- Ohios Budget Mess - September 28, 2004
- Shameless Fear-Mongering - September 27, 2004
- Whats up with Universities and Ehrenreich? - September 22, 2004
- New CBS Poll--Bush 50%, Kerry 41% - September 18, 2004
- Too Many Choices? - September 14, 2004
- Sandra Ramsey Lines - September 12, 2004
- Kerry in Cambodia - September 10, 2004
- Forgeries? - September 10, 2004
- Laura, Teresa, and the Cookie Cook-Off - September 9, 2004
- Protesters at the Conventions - September 4, 2004
- Conservative Comedy - August 29, 2004
- What Else is "Seared" into John Kerrys Memory? - August 27, 2004
- Worry in the Kerry Camp - August 23, 2004
- The Parties and Foreign Policy - August 19, 2004
- How Kerry Wouldve Reacted on 9/11 - August 17, 2004
- Why I Miss Georgia - August 15, 2004
- McGreevey to resign - August 12, 2004
- Bushs Second-Term Agenda - August 12, 2004
- Kerrys Schizophrenic Foreign Policy - August 5, 2004
- "I abroad/Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek/Deliverance for us all." - August 5, 2004
- Why Freedom is Better - August 2, 2004
- Kerry as Isolationist - July 31, 2004
- "In Paris they are praying for a Kerry presidency" - July 30, 2004
- Republicans, Democrats, and Income Inequality - July 27, 2004
- Young on Moore - July 20, 2004
- Howard Dean, Warmonger - July 5, 2004
- Moore to be Embraced by Red China? - July 1, 2004
- Vive la France! - June 23, 2004
- John Lewis Gaddis on Ronald Reagan - June 10, 2004
- The Book that Kofi Annan Doesnt Want You to Read - June 6, 2004
- Kerry as Bush Sr. - June 3, 2004
- Im Sure it was an Honest Mistake - May 31, 2004
- "Have you Seen the Horta, Mr. Rubin?" - May 30, 2004
- "It Must Be Sad to Be Al Gore" - May 28, 2004
- From the Folks Who Brought You "Oil-for-Food".... - May 25, 2004
- Laissez les bon temps rouler! - May 23, 2004
- Gays and Islamic Radicals--Natural Allies? - May 18, 2004
- The Left Goes ’Round the Bend - May 18, 2004
- Abu Ghraib and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s Snuff Film - May 17, 2004
- Chip Bok Cartoon - May 17, 2004
- The United States and Europe: Drifting Apart? - May 17, 2004
- An Interesting Theory on Abu Ghraib - May 14, 2004
- Hayek again - May 10, 2004
- Why Bush Continues to Lead in the Polls - May 10, 2004
- Happy 105th, Friedrich! - May 9, 2004
- Just Read This. - May 6, 2004
- Another Front in the Culture War - April 23, 2004
- Bruce Bartletts Second Thoughts on Iraq - April 22, 2004
- Dude, Wheres Your Website? - April 22, 2004
- Now THIS is cool - April 22, 2004
- Trouble for Left-Wing Talk Radio - April 16, 2004
- "Temporary Doves" - April 5, 2004
- Condis Testimony - March 31, 2004
- Which Candidate is More Like Hoover? - March 28, 2004
- Kerrys Talks with the North Vietnamese - March 25, 2004
- The Professor Who Cried "Hate" - March 18, 2004
- What We Always Knew About Bullies - March 16, 2004
- "John Kerrys odd come-to-Jebus moment" - March 1, 2004
- Victor Davis Hanson - February 28, 2004
- Kerry Sex Scandal? - February 12, 2004
- Churchills Parrot? - January 21, 2004
- "I do believe in the sanctity of marriage, I totally do!" - January 15, 2004
- What Would Friedrich Do? - January 11, 2004
- Prediction for 2004 - January 9, 2004
- Did She Really Have the Winning Ticket? - January 7, 2004
- Diary of a Dean-o-Phobe - December 26, 2003
- Interview with Christopher Hitchens - December 26, 2003
- Yep, its true! - December 14, 2003
- Saddam Captured! - December 14, 2003
- Bill Maher strikes again - December 8, 2003
- Apologizing for "Metrosexual" - November 24, 2003
- An Obscene Street Name? - November 21, 2003
- Dennis Kucinichs Sex Life - November 16, 2003
- Lake accuses Democrats of Conservatism - November 11, 2003
- "George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party" - November 11, 2003
- K.C. Johnsons Testimony - November 5, 2003
- Reading can be dangerous - October 30, 2003
- Classical Liberals and Social Liberals - October 17, 2003
- Can the Twain Meet? - October 16, 2003
- Politics and Ideology in the Classroom - October 13, 2003
- More on the Schwarzenegger Surprise - October 3, 2003
- Schwarzenegger Defense from an Unlikely Source - October 3, 2003
- Skepticism on the Recall - October 1, 2003
- Lileks on Administration Critics - September 18, 2003
- Eugenics III - September 5, 2003
- The Voice of Reason on the Blackout - August 19, 2003
- Update on Conservatism Conference - August 6, 2003
- When Greenland was warm - August 4, 2003
- Getting it Right about Coulter - July 7, 2003
- Canada, Gay Rights, and SCOTUS - June 29, 2003
- Steyn on Strom - June 28, 2003
- The EUs Constitution - June 28, 2003
- Hitchens on Blumenthal - June 18, 2003
- Why We Fought - June 14, 2003
- The K.C. Johnson Controversy - May 20, 2003
- Conference on Conservatism - May 7, 2003
- Hypocrisy--The Deadliest Sin? - May 6, 2003
- McCain-Feingold Ravaged - May 3, 2003
- Still More on the Gingrich Speech - May 1, 2003
- Why History Matters - April 28, 2003
- Revoke Michael Moore’s Oscar? - April 23, 2003
- What the French think now - April 23, 2003
- McCarthyites of the Left - April 22, 2003
- Who Ransacked the Iraqi National Museum? - April 15, 2003
- More of Saddams Terror - April 11, 2003
- Review of de Villepin - April 10, 2003
- More from Lileks - April 3, 2003
- Running Commentary by Lileks - March 22, 2003
- An Intelligent Dissenting View on Iraq - March 21, 2003
- James Lileks on the Middle East - March 2, 2003
- A Letter from Saddam - February 28, 2003
- Multilateralism without the UN - February 7, 2003
- Anti-American Studies - February 5, 2003
- Good Piece on Sharpton - February 4, 2003
- What’s Wrong with the Historical Profession? - January 27, 2003
- More on Two Towers - December 23, 2002
- Tenure Battle at Brooklyn College - November 25, 2002
- JFK’s Ailments Revealed - November 22, 2002
- Jerk of the Week - November 15, 2002
- Gaddis on National Security - November 6, 2002
- Here We Go Again - November 5, 2002
- The Bellesiles Case - November 2, 2002
- Sabato’s Predictions - November 1, 2002
- Haitian Hijinks - October 31, 2002
- Economic Freedom in the World - October 17, 2002