Month: February 2017
Duerr “Secessionism and the European Union – Scotland”
Written after the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, this chapter of Duerr’s book covers the history and character of the Scottish National Party. The SNP has a fairly long history, beginning in 1934 as a merger of two Scottish nationalist parties. It slowly became relevant by winning by-elections beginning in 1945 and peaking in membership in […]
Lake Wobegon Days – “Protestant”
Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon may have been fictitious, but the religious sect that the narrator of the chapter is a member of, a branch of the Exclusive Brethren, is real. The defining feature of the Brethren is that they’re both very sectarian but also highly decentralized. Congregations of Brethren have no defined leader, and anyone […]