On Jimmy Carter’s Ambitions and Industriousness
I know little about Jimmy Carter except what is known by most politically-aware Americans. He oversaw both an energy crisis and an international crisis; he was ...
Category: Politics
A Politician Admitted in 1909 That Some Laws Have Secret Purposes
I have been listening to the audiobook of Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot: The Struggle for Voting Rights in America, which so far has been interesting. I...
The Ugly Politics Surrounding the Alien and Sedition Act
(A longer article about this quote appeared on Medium.com.) Given this nasty campaign period, I thought this quote from Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: Th...