Patriots and Peoples
20 January 2025

"A Republic, ... if you can keep it"

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Benjamin Franklin's famous line that the United States government is a "republic, if you can keep it" is recorded only in the ...
07 August 2024

Cognitive Dissonance

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The lines between autobiography and fiction are often permeable. Often a fiction writer's early work is grounded in the writer's own...
30 July 2024

A Small Lie

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I am finding quite informative the book The Flag + The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (2022) by Ph...
20 July 2024

Miracle at Philadelphia

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A review of sorts Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787  (1966...
13 February 2024

Hamilton on the Nature of Genius

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A Lesson in Sourcing Many publications credit Alexander Hamilton with a statement that any genius he possesses is rooted in diligent study a...
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