The Last Jeffersonian
A Journal of Democracy and Public Affairs
Welcome
Welcome to The Last Jeffersonian, home of the premier publication about Ronald Reagan and his ideas. The Last Jeffersonian is a free e-journal, published monthly and delivered to your mailbox. If you're interested in Ronald Reagan and his ideas about citizenship, democratic politics and international affairs, please give it a try! And while you're here, please check out the other resources available at the site. Thanks for visiting.
Read The Last Jeffersonian
Are you interested in politics, but tired of the offensive rants you find in the discussion groups? The Last Jeffersonian is an online journal about Ronald Reagan, democratic politics and public affairs. Read TLJ if you:
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Appreciate well reasoned, intelligent analysis of public issues.
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Want to learn about Ronald Reagan and participate in a community interested in his ideas.
Think that politics can be serious fun!
A new issue of TLJ comes out each month. To have the publication delivered directly to your mailbox, please enter your address below. Your address is confidential, and you can unsubscribe with one click any time.
Thank you for your interest in The Last Jeffersonian, and welcome to our growing community. You won't always agree with TLJ's ideas, but you're sure to find the argumentation worthwhile.
Articles
To get an idea of the articles you'll see in TLJ, please visit the index of past issues, as well as TLJ's articles page. You might find some of the thinking out of the mainstream, but it's not boring!
Here are some articles that TLJ has published recently:Articles from The Last Jeffersonian
Why a War in Iraq Is a Bad Idea
Ronald Reagan's Biggest Mistake
Other Articles and Published Pieces
Ronald Reagan's Secrets of Success: Speech at the Reagan Library, April 2002
Where's a Candidate People Want?
And many others!
The TLJ Story
The idea for The Last Jeffersonian started a long time ago, back in the early 1990s. I was a young professor, and had been working hard on a book called The Logic of Conflict. It was one of those academic pieces you write as you try to get tenure. I wanted my next book to be something I was truly interested in, and that people would read.
So I decided on a book about Ronald Reagan's political ideas. He was still pretty unpopular back then, at least in academic institutions. I didn't want to tell my colleagues what I was doing! Anyway, I went to work, and published the book - The Last Jeffersonian: Ronald Reagan's Dreams of America - in 2002.
Now I needed a way to let people know about the book. I was a writer now, and therefore interested in online publishing. Thus was born The Last Jeffersonian: A Journal of Democracy and Public Affairs. Yes, I knew it could be confusing to name the journal after the book, but I did it anyway. Publication of the journal began in the fall of 2002.
Since then, the journal has published many articles about Ronald Reagan and other issues that matter to all of us. The number of readers has grown and grown, and so has interaction via e-mail. Altogether, TLJ has established itself as a publication independent of the book it's named after, and that's a great outcome.
Practical Benefits
On the practical side, here are some more reasons to subscribe to The Last Jeffersonian:
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Easy access to the TLJ web log, which is loaded with interesting links, commentary, musings, and all the controversial stuff that won't fit in the journal.
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If you're doing research on Ronald Reagan, American politics or international affairs, TLJ is a good place to get started, and a good place to return.
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Have you wanted to publish some of your own work on the web? Read TLJ and you may realize you've found an outlet for your own thinking on politics.
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Steven Greffenius
Editor & Publisher
What Readers Say
"Thanks for keeping Ronald Reagan's spirit alive." - Douglas Lotten
"I found myself thinking of F. Scott Fitzgerald's conclusion to The Great Gatsby. The Last Jeffersonian opened my eyes to the ways in which Ronald Reagan gave us, perhaps for the last time in history, a view of our America from 'somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.'" - Amazon Reviewer
"I enjoy your Last Jeffersonian newsletters and book... Keep up the good work." - Jim Leggette, The American Thinker
"Reagan's belief in freedom reminds me that we're lucky people." - Lee Terpening
“Greffenius’s book about Ronald Reagan’s political ideas, The Last Jeffersonian, compares two great leaders of our republic. Reagan liked to paraphrase Jefferson’s axiom: ‘That government governs best which governs least.’ Reagan followed Jefferson in viewing limited government as a foundation for American greatness and individual virtue, not a narrow ideology of self-interest.” - Steven Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan