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Thomas Jefferson
John Adams remarked that a few glasses made anyone feel capable of being president
It is not ‘sentimental’ to worry about the world’s oldest English-language magazine being snapped up by the UAE
We have become stupider. Instead of solving problems we have created wholly unnecessary new ones.
It says a lot that when I say ‘the Queen’ even American readers know I can mean only one person
The Jefferson Memorial still gives off a far better vibe than the Potomac anthills in which the self-important Get Things Done
We should follow the lead of Thomas Jefferson, who recognized Shays’ Rebellion as a symptom of a deeper problem
Our ability to see more than a couple of inches in front of our faces remains humblingly limited
George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later
Our story is intricately and intimately connected to the ‘original sin’ of our nation’s founding
If we simply destroy the evidence, we impoverish our heirs’ understanding
