Culture

Allegories of Benjamin Franklin

by Louis Arthur Norton

It is common for nations to search for heroes to emulate a lofty standard for their citizens. Benjamin Franklin may be unique in that...

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Reviews

April 29, 2024

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics

by Timothy Symington

BOOK REVIEW: Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics by H. W. Brands. (New York, NY: Doubleday, 2023....

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Critical Thinking

April 25, 2024

Was Thomas Paine a Secret Tory? It Defies Common Sense

by Richard Briles Moriarty

Did Thomas Paine actively write against the American cause after emigrating from England in late 1774 and only opportunistically pretend to support the cause?...

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Interviews

April 24, 2024

This Week on Dispatches: Raphael Corletta on the Two “Empires of Liberty”

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Raphael Corletta  about his recent article on the contrast between Thomas Jefferson's "Empire of...

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War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783)

April 23, 2024

The Milford Connecticut Cartel

by Tom Hogan

As 1776 was ending, a group of about 225 American prisoners was released from the British prisons in New York City to be sent...

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