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Can the Republic Survive Corrupt Presidents?
The Founders knew that executive power was vital but dangerous in any republic.
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Richard Samuelson
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Law & Liberty
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June 27, 2024
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity
Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day.
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Daniel Benjamin
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Steven Simon
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The Atlantic
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May 20, 2024
The Discovery of Europe
A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.
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Álvaro Enrigue
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New York Review of Books
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December 28, 2023
Bourgeois Stew: Alexis de Tocqueville
In contrast to feudal society, where everyone, lord or serf, remained rooted to the land, and words were ‘passed on'.
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Oliver Cussen
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London Review of Books
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November 16, 2023
President’s Day Is a Weird Holiday. It Has Been Since the Beginning.
How should a republic honor its leaders?
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Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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The Bulwark
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February 19, 2023
The 1893 Hawaiian Coup and the Realities of American Expansion
To most 21st century Americans, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. But how that paradise became part of the United States is a long, complex, and often dark story.
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Ben Railton
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The Saturday Evening Post
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January 17, 2023
‘A Great Democratic Revolution’
Alexis de Tocqueville left France to study the American prison system and returned with the material that would become “Democracy in America.”
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Lynn A. Hunt
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New York Review of Books
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November 17, 2022
The Comforts of a Single State
Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.
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Jan Ellen Lewis
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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November 22, 2021
How the Dear America Series Taught Young Girls They Had a Place In History
History classes made it seem like young girls wouldn't ever change the course of the world. These books taught them that they could.
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Angela Lashbrook
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Refinery29
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July 19, 2021
The Young America Movement and the Crisis of Household Politics
In the 19th century, freedom from government interference mapped onto opposition of women's rights.
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Mark Power Smith
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The Panorama
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July 7, 2021
George Washington Williams and the Origins of Anti-Imperialism
Initially supportive of Belgian King Leopold II’s claim to have created a “free state” of Congo, Williams changed his mind when he saw the horrors of empire.
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Mohammed Elnaiem
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JSTOR Daily
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June 10, 2021
Massachusettensis and Novanglus: The Last Great Debate Prior to the American Revolution
James M. Smith explains the last debates between Loyalists and Patriots prior to the official outbreak of the American Revolution.
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James M. Smith
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Journal of the American Revolution
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May 25, 2021
The Founders Flounder: Adams Agonistes
Why John Adams was peculiarly unsuited to the moment.
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Michael Liss
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3 Quarks Daily
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May 24, 2021
When Constitutions Took Over the World
Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?
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Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
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March 22, 2021
‘The Most Ignorant and Unfit’: What Made America’s Worst Ever Leader?
The real challenge is not simply to replace Trump, but to fix a system that produces, promotes, and protects the toxicity that defines his presidency.
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David Rothkopf
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New York Review of Books
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July 3, 2020
The Idea of a Nation
The idea of a modern nation is both confusing and conflicting. And as the world confronts the current global health crisis, its weaknesses become more apparent.
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Thomas Meaney
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The Point
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June 12, 2020
Does Locke’s Entanglement With Slavery Undermine His Philosophy?
John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?
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Holly Brewer
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Aeon
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December 12, 2017
America's 100 Other Declarations of Independence
The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.
by
David Greenberg
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Politico Magazine
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July 4, 2017
No 'King of Kings'
Edits that colonists made to prayer books during the American Revolution embodied the shift to independence.
by
Sara Georgini
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
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July 3, 2017
How to Steal an Election
The crazy history of nominating Conventions.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
June 27, 2016
3 Reasons the American Revolution Was a Mistake
Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.
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Dylan Matthews
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Vox
on
July 2, 2015
Friends, Lovers, and Family
The interconnected circles of writers, painters, muses, and more.
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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April 1, 2010
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