"[T]ariffs were in the service of free trade . . ." ~ Thomas L. Krannawitter This Orwellian absurdity — the statement that protectionist tariffs are good for free trade — defines the intellectual shallowness of the latest tirade against my book, The Real Lincoln, to come from the Claremont Institute. In a supposed "review" in the Spring 2002 Claremont Review of Books Thomas Krannawitter lies about the contents of my book, attacks straw-man arguments, and simply makes things up. He claims, for example, that I say that Lincoln "did not care a whit about" slavery. This is a lie; these … Continue reading Whigged-Out Lincolnites