Josh Hawley

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/13/2023
  

  Josh Hawley Earns F in Early American History

  by John Nichols

  "The origins of the misquote, which has circulated for years in Christian nationalist publications, can be traced to that 1956 article in The Virginian, a segregationist-era publication that Willamette University history professor Seth Cotlar has described as 'virulently antisemitic & white nationalist'.”

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  7/5/2023
  

  Hawley's Use of Fake Patrick Henry Quote a Revealing Error

  The Senator's tweet repeating a false quotation that asserted the United States had an explicitly Christian founding is more than a case of being suckered by online misinfomation; it reflects his Christian nationalist politics. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  3/28/2022
  

  Hawley's Attacks on KBJ Part of Long History of Politicizing Child Abuse Panics

  Historian Paul Renfro explains the rising fears of child abduction in the 1980s and the way those fears have been used politically. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/4/2021
  

  Josh Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Republican Obsession with Manliness

  Journalist Liza Featherstone argues that Senator Josh Hawley, who wrote a book on Theodore Roosevelt, is missing the irony of harkening back to TR as an exemplar of manliness: Roosevelt was plagued by the same obsessions with masculinity that the Republicans today are stoking.

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• SOURCE: Georgia Public Broadcasting
  11/12/2021
  

  Historian Kristin Kobes-Du Mez: Hawley Latest to Politicize So-Called Threats to Masculinity

  "It's never entirely clear how he defines masculinity, even though he's quite certain that masculinity is under attack, and the left is trying to do away with real men."

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  8/1/2021
  

  Sen. Hawley: Public Schools Must Make Kids Love America and the Founding

  by Josh Hawley

  Senator Josh Hawley argues that public schools are obligated to teach "the truth about our history and our purpose that unites us as a nation."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/7/2021
  

  Why Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Won’t Be Punished for Fomenting a Riot

  by Alex Pareene

  The Senate's ethics processes reflect an instution that has historically policed itself. They are completely useless when Senators ignore see political advantage in ignoring institutional norms. 

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• SOURCE: Wired
  5/2/2021
  

  Josh Hawley’s Virtual Reality

  Writer Gilad Edelman says that Josh Hawley's book twists the history of antitrust policy to fit the needs of today's Republican culture war against the social media giants. 

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  1/13/2021
  

  Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands

  by Steven Lubet

  Senator Josh Hawley arguably helped incite a mob to invade the Capitol to thwart the certification of Biden's victory. Missouri's antebellum senator David Rice Atchison helped incite a civil war in Kansas in 1854. 

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• SOURCE: Claire Potter
  1/11/2021
  

  Josh Hawley's Cancelled Book Contract Is Not "Orwellian"

  by Claire Potter

  The author has broadly defended free speech as a value. Josh Hawley's complaints about his cancelled book contract don't fit the bill.

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• 1/10/2021
  

  Teddy Roosevelt and Josh Hawley's History Lessons

  by David Goldfischer

  Josh Hawley wrote a 2008 biography of Theodore Roosevelt balancing praise of the former president's vision of democracy with condemnation of his grasping for power. One wonders how the author of this book could have acted as the Senator did on January 6. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/5/2020
  

  Josh Hawley Dodges Question During Fox News Grilling on Election Challenge

  Senator Josh Hawley's demands that Congress intervene in the electoral vote certification depends on ignoring that A: Congress formed such a commission in 1877 after three states failed to certify their vote and B: the resulting compromise forfeited the politial and civil rights of Black Americans. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/3/2020
  

  Media Should Call GOP Election Fight An Attempted Coup, Historian Says

  "I've been using that word for months now," historian and author Timothy Snyder told Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday.

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• SOURCE: Boston Herald
  1/1/2021
  

  Opinion: Lawsuit Puts some GOP Lawmakers on Dumb Side of history

  Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg suggests that Republican protests over the Electoral College vote certification are ridiculous and will be remembered as desperate and un-American.