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Arguments rarely change opinions; stories sometimes can. Maureen Dowd, in her New York Times piece, “Donald Trump, Our Foundering Father“, describes how she and her Trump-loving brother recently visited the “Founding Friends, Founding Foes” tour at Monticello where people could explore their divergent, fraught political relationships as Jefferson and Adams did back in the day.…
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By: Joshua Pitney As an autistic person growing up, I was told many times, in many ways, that I couldn’t. I thought I couldn’t make friends. It was challenging for me to make friends due to my introverted nature and reliance on special interests to strike up conversations. Eventually, I learned to integrate my interests…
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BY: John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. On January 2, 1855, New York Mayor Fernando Wood wrote to President Franklin Pierce: The disease and pauperism arriving here almost daily is, of itself, a sufficient evil; but when to it is added crime, we must be permitted…
