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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address surely stands with the Apology of Socrates and the Funeral Oration of Pericles among the great speeches offered at crucial civic moments in human history. It is familiar and justly famous to all Americans. But as Diana Schaub discusses in this podcast, it is precisely because we know it so well that it can be hard to appreciate the scope of its achievement. To truly understand how a statement so brief could run so deep and last so long, Schaub says that we must carefully consider its substance and structure, and its place in Lincoln’s thought.
This conversation is inspired by Diana’s essay from our Spring 2014 issue on Lincoln at Gettysburg. Read it here: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/lincoln-at-gettysburg
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Quoting from the linked essay:
Apropos today?
I always thought that the Southern states had a pretty good Constitutional case for a right of secession — but no sooner than March, 1865, because they had participated in the Presidential election of 1860.
What the Confederates did was like losing a hand in a card game and then taking back their wager. Strange way to behave, for a people who made so much of their sense of “honor”.
No recitation of the address to cap off the ‘cast? Giant missed opportunity.
Democrats: Sore losers since 1860.
PIT worthy Max.
Great interview. Is it only me but I found it hard to hear Professor Schaub in some parts? And don’t everyone say its only you, ok.