Of all the myths and superstitions about American history that have been concocted by Harry Jaffa and his fellow Straussians, the biggest one is the bizarre and ahistorical notion that the Declaration of Independence is an anti-secessionist document. Jaffa has admitted that all of his writings on the topic of Lincoln are effectively nothing more than a repetition of The Great Centralizer’s own slick political rhetoric, including his perversion of the meaning of the Declaration. I recently ran across a particularly clear explanation of this in a 1997 book by Michael Lind entitled Hamilton’s Republic (p. 121): “There was not … Continue reading Jaffa’s Big Lie Exposed Once Again