Getting Aaron Burr Wrong, Part Two
What do the journalists and commentators Ryan Grim, Matthew Yglesias, Ross Douthat, and Ben Dreyfuss have in common?
HOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY
reading the American past into the American crisis--and vice versa
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New York Times "News Analysis": Trump Exposes the US Founders As Corrupt, Anti-Democratic, Authoritarian Elitists
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Those Goddamn Federalist Papers
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