Josh Hawley 
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
3/28/2022
Hawley's Attacks on KBJ Part of Long History of Politicizing Child Abuse Panics
Historian Paul Renfro explains the rising fears of child abduction in the 1980s and the way those fears have been used politically.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/4/2021
Josh Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Republican Obsession with Manliness
Journalist Liza Featherstone argues that Senator Josh Hawley, who wrote a book on Theodore Roosevelt, is missing the irony of harkening back to TR as an exemplar of manliness: Roosevelt was plagued by the same obsessions with masculinity that the Republicans today are stoking.
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SOURCE: Georgia Public Broadcasting
11/12/2021
Historian Kristin Kobes-Du Mez: Hawley Latest to Politicize So-Called Threats to Masculinity
"It's never entirely clear how he defines masculinity, even though he's quite certain that masculinity is under attack, and the left is trying to do away with real men."
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SOURCE: New York Post
8/1/2021
Sen. Hawley: Public Schools Must Make Kids Love America and the Founding
by Josh Hawley
Senator Josh Hawley argues that public schools are obligated to teach "the truth about our history and our purpose that unites us as a nation."
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SOURCE: The New Republic
6/7/2021
Why Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Won’t Be Punished for Fomenting a Riot
by Alex Pareene
The Senate's ethics processes reflect an instution that has historically policed itself. They are completely useless when Senators ignore see political advantage in ignoring institutional norms.
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SOURCE: Wired
5/2/2021
Josh Hawley’s Virtual Reality
Writer Gilad Edelman says that Josh Hawley's book twists the history of antitrust policy to fit the needs of today's Republican culture war against the social media giants.
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SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
1/13/2021
Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands
by Steven Lubet
Senator Josh Hawley arguably helped incite a mob to invade the Capitol to thwart the certification of Biden's victory. Missouri's antebellum senator David Rice Atchison helped incite a civil war in Kansas in 1854.
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SOURCE: Claire Potter
1/11/2021
Josh Hawley's Cancelled Book Contract Is Not "Orwellian"
by Claire Potter
The author has broadly defended free speech as a value. Josh Hawley's complaints about his cancelled book contract don't fit the bill.
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1/10/2021
Teddy Roosevelt and Josh Hawley's History Lessons
by David Goldfischer
Josh Hawley wrote a 2008 biography of Theodore Roosevelt balancing praise of the former president's vision of democracy with condemnation of his grasping for power. One wonders how the author of this book could have acted as the Senator did on January 6.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/5/2020
Josh Hawley Dodges Question During Fox News Grilling on Election Challenge
Senator Josh Hawley's demands that Congress intervene in the electoral vote certification depends on ignoring that A: Congress formed such a commission in 1877 after three states failed to certify their vote and B: the resulting compromise forfeited the politial and civil rights of Black Americans.
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SOURCE: CNN
1/3/2020
Media Should Call GOP Election Fight An Attempted Coup, Historian Says
"I've been using that word for months now," historian and author Timothy Snyder told Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday.
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SOURCE: Boston Herald
1/1/2021
Opinion: Lawsuit Puts some GOP Lawmakers on Dumb Side of history
Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg suggests that Republican protests over the Electoral College vote certification are ridiculous and will be remembered as desperate and un-American.
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