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If you have some spare time today, I have three recommendations for your appropriate Independence Day reading:
* At Hullabaloo, David Atkins’ brief but startling collection of lefty quotations from the Founding Fathers.
* Religion Dispatches‘ “reader” of recent articles on America’s heritage of church-state relations and efforts to misuse it today.
* Kevin Drum’s fun-pack of writings and charts on the recent struggles for and against the right to vote.
Enjoy.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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