‘I had two jobs: to run the country and to survive’: an interview with President Trump
POTUS on his second term, Nixon, Ukraine — and the tush push
Thomas jefferson
Thursday
Thursday
America’s Summer of Discontent, 250 years ago
The critical months that led to independence
Why is James Madison so consistently forgotten?
Whether or not we need a real monument to the Founding Father, his contribution to the blueprint of America ought not go unnoticed
Monday
The awesome Alan Pell Crawford
The writer has made a literary reputation on his fluid narratives of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Southern history
Tuesday
The populism of Machiavelli and Jefferson
In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures
Wednesday
Madeira, our onetime national drink
John Adams remarked that a few glasses made anyone feel capable of being president
Thursday
An American remembrance of the Queen
It says a lot that when I say ‘the Queen’ even American readers know I can mean only one person
Thursday
A day in DC
The Jefferson Memorial still gives off a far better vibe than the Potomac anthills in which the self-important Get Things Done
Thursday
Have Americans got George III all wrong?
George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later
Friday
Do we erase black history when we take down statues?
Our story is intricately and intimately connected to the ‘original sin’ of our nation’s founding
Wednesday
The war of the statues is a battle for freedom
If we simply destroy the evidence, we impoverish our heirs’ understanding
Tuesday
No one in Jefferson’s day suspected the contradiction between commerce and education
Republics have never lived by the commercial principle alone
Wednesday
Why do Americans and Brits write about alcohol so differently?
American drink writing tends to be self-flagellating: the recovering alcoholic’s remembrance of sins past
