For your consideration…………..<\/p>\n
Charles Cooke: Hullo, everyone. I\u2019m just popping in to let you all know about an\u00a0online course<\/a>\u00a0I\u2019m teaching early next year called\u00a0The History of the Second Amendment<\/em>. It\u2019s with a new startup called Chapter, which noticed that pretty much every course they were offering was either progressive or progressive-adjacent, decided that it didn\u2019t want to become an echo chamber, and so asked me to teach one, too. I suggested the history of the right to keep and bear arms as a topic, they agreed, and here were are.<\/p>\n Chapter describes its system as \u201clike a book club, but way more fun.\u201d Each week, I\u2019ll provide a reading list (which could be articles, reviews, videos, podcasts, or primary source documents), along with insights and tips on each one. There will be a community forum in which you can discuss each topic, as well as a rolling Q&A in which I will answer questions \u2014 both on their website and, if the topic warrants it, by video. Because people are busy, everything will be \u201casynchronous\u201d \u2014 that is, you can take part whenever you\u2019re free, rather than at times that are set by me. The course will last four weeks, it will cost $40 (actually: $35 for Ricochet members), and it will run the gamut.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Week One<\/strong> will be on pre-Revolutionary America. We\u2019ll explore how the right to keep and bear arms came over with the colonists from Britain, before making its way into the heart of American law.<\/p>\n \u2014 Week Two<\/strong>\u00a0will be on the Founding Era. We\u2019ll ask why the Second Amendment was added to the federal constitution, what were the Founders\u2019 intentions in including it, and what did militias have to do with a right \u201cof the people\u201d?<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Week Three<\/strong>\u00a0will be on the post-Civil War period, during which the Second Amendment took on a new meaning \u2014 especially during the era of Jim Crow \u2014 and was changed by the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Week Four<\/strong>\u00a0will be on the Second Amendment as it exists today. We\u2019ll cover contemporary American jurisprudence, the\u00a0Heller<\/em>\u00a0decision, and the political rebirth of the right.<\/p>\n The course will start on January 24th, 2022. If it interests you, can sign up\u00a0here<\/a>: https:\/\/getchapter.app\/@cooke\/guns. And if it doesn\u2019t? Well, I shall cry into my golf cart batteries. Chapter has agreed to knock $5 off the price for Ricochet members if you use the code\u00a0RICOCHET<\/strong>\u00a0when checking out, so if you do sign up, make sure you do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For your consideration………….. Charles Cooke: I\u2019ll be teaching an online course: The History of the Second Amendment Hullo, everyone. I\u2019m just popping in to let you all know about an\u00a0online course\u00a0I\u2019m teaching early next year called\u00a0The History of the Second Amendment. It\u2019s with a new startup called Chapter, which noticed that pretty much every course … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75174,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75173\/revisions\/75174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI\u2019ll be teaching an online course: The History of the Second Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n