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Features, Political Philosophy, Reviews November 11, 2020 November 9, 2020

First Principles

by Timothy Symington

First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned From the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks (New York, NY: Harper…

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Arts & Literature November 2, 2016 October 25, 2016

Joseph Addison’s Cato: Liberty on the Stage

by Eric Sterner

The study of ancient Greece and Rome was a significant part of upper class education in Colonial and Revolutionary America. The founders were familiar…

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Arts & Literature December 11, 2013 August 28, 2016

George Washington’s Favorite Play

by Thomas Fleming

Thanks to the porous state of the British lines around Philadelphia and the industry of General Washington’s secret agents, there is little doubt that…

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