Teacher and Author
Alexander Hamilton asked if people are truly capable of governing themselves by reflection and choice or if they are, instead, doomed to be buffeted by the whims of accident and force. Jill Lepore made it the organizing question of her … Continued
In These Truths, Jill Lepore asks her reader to consider a central question as she makes her way through her 800-page survey of American history. It is a question first posed by Alexander Hamilton in 1787 in what became known … Continued
I get mildly annoyed when my wife scrolls through her iPhone in bed at night. There is nothing mild about it when she deigns to play audio, almost always a song-and-dance number from some local theater production. On this particular … Continued