Sunday Poem

Friday Poem

America’s Most Enduring Belief Is Also One of Its Most Dangerous

Partisan Press Conference (Episode 4)

On America's 250th Birthday, the United States Arms the World's Tyrannies

1776 All-Stars: George Washington Was a Model of Restraint

It Wasn’t Just the Founders

Synthetic Cells to Sell Synthetic Biology

The Fourth of July That Saved My Family

The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering and Creativity

Original Intent of the Declaration

Poem by Jim Culleny

Wednesday Poem

Tuesday Poem

Lerna Ekmekcioglu named head of MIT's History Section

Hit by a car, beset by family tragedy, diagnosed with cancer: William T. Vollmann may be dying, but he’s also just finished a 3,000 page opus

Where Kant and Rousseau theorized, George Forster sailed the world to learn what makes humans human

Vasily Grossman died believing that his masterpiece had been seized by the KGB and lost forever

Open Thread

Rat Disease Has a New Pick-Me-Up

Two Ways to Remember the Declaration of Independence