Declaration of Independence
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency Roger L. Martin Harvard Business Review Press (September 2020) Democratic capitalism is not — or at least should not be — an oxymoron Long before the Declaration of Independence,…
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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh Simon & Schuster (2016) Here are several “profoundly counterintuitive perspectives on how to become a better person and how to create a better…
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Though John Jay was one of three contributors to the Federalist Papers, president of the wartime Continental Congress and the nation’s first chief justice, some say he’s the forgotten founder. That is one of the key points in an article…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of John Ferling that first appeared in the Journal of the American Revolution. I came upon it when making a periodic visit to the Oxford University Press blog. To read the complete…
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Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution Thomas P. Slaughter Hill & Wang/A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014) A comprehensive response to John Adams’ question, “What do we mean by revolution?” The question posed by Adams in…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by David Brooks for The New York Times. He shares his thoughts about a blog post by Lydia Netzer. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please…
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Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War Thomas Kranish Oxford University Press (2010) Why Jefferson’s flights from Richmond and Monticello “were the lowest points of his public life” Having just read and reviewed Nathaniel Philbrick’s Bunker Hill, I decided to…
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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution Nathaniel Philbrick Viking/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House (2013) “In the end, the city of Boston is the true hero of this story.” The historical details are by now well-known but many…
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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution Nathaniel Philbrick Viking/The Penguin Group (2013) “In the end, the city of Boston is the true hero of this story.” The historical details are by now well-known but many people do not…
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5 Facts about Independence Day [Post on 7/3/22]
Here is a brief article written by Joe Carter for the Acton Institute Powerblog, * * * July 4, 2022 will be America’s 246th Independence Day, the day Americans celebrate our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Here are five…
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