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Senior Seminar

10/15
· Liberals think democratic principles are sometimes flawed – like when it doesn't protect people's rights.
· Conservatives – the leveling of the masses
· Populism – arises in the 1890's – disaffected farmers come together as the People's party
· Granger movement and Alliance movement – oppose railroads and threatening corporate power – want gov't control of railroads, gov't control of warehouses, and want to make it easier for farmers to get loans
· 1891 – farmers frustrated – form Populist Party
· Dem. – William Jennings Bryan – tries to co-opt populist party
· Christopher Lasch – died in mid 90's – argues that Pop. Tradition goes deep into American history – it has endured varying strength – roots lie in Calvinist theology (especially Puritanism) – key ideas from Calvinist:
· Belief in human limits
· Distrust of materialism
· Belief in the power of the work ethic
· Lasch, Tom Paine, Cabbett, Brownson, Ralph Waldo......

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