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  • Benjamin Franklin: America’s ‘Founding Physician’

    Benjamin Franklin: America’s ‘Founding Physician’0

    When Benjamin Franklin deferred to Thomas Jefferson in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, he did so for multiple reasons. He wished to avoid the annoyance of being edited by the committee of the whole Continental Congress, as Jefferson was, to Jefferson’s great distress. Franklin sought to ensure the support of Jefferson’s Virginia for

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  • Benjamin Franklin on the 4 Virtues Learned in Chess

    Benjamin Franklin on the 4 Virtues Learned in Chess0

    • October 12, 2016

    I have a bit of a confession to make. I have never played chess, nor have I really ever had the desire to do so. (Sorry, chess fans.) However, I may be changing my mind on this issue, particularly after reading a piece by Benjamin Franklin entitled, “The Morals of Chess.” Franklin begins by saying,

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  • Benjamin Franklin on Achieving Greatness

    Benjamin Franklin on Achieving Greatness0

    • September 2, 2015

    “Almost every Man has a strong natural Desire of being valued and esteemed by the rest of his Species; but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the Right and only infallible Method of becoming so. That laudable Ambition is too commonly misapplyed and often ill employed. Some to make themselves

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  • Benjamin Constant: The Greatest French Libertarian Thinker You’ve Never Heard Of

    Benjamin Constant: The Greatest French Libertarian Thinker You’ve Never Heard Of0

    October 25 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Constant, who Nicholas Capaldi termed “the key thinker in the French classical liberal tradition between Montesquieu and Tocqueville,” and Isaiah Berlin characterized as “the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy.” One might expect that with such plaudits, Constant’s quarter-millennium anniversary would

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  • Bended-Knee Proposals: Reconsidering the Tradition

    Bended-Knee Proposals: Reconsidering the Tradition0

    Whenever a major holiday like Christmas, New Year’s, or Valentine’s Day approaches, it’s almost a given that some friend or acquaintance from Facebook will get engaged. Their smiling faces will show up in your feed, and if you’re lucky, maybe even a real action shot or video which catches the special moment as it unfolds:

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  • Ben-Hur is Surprisingly Good

    Ben-Hur is Surprisingly Good0

    The new Ben-Hur is a terrific movie. It is exciting, suspenseful, filled with clashes of spirit, interest, and personality, and offers a story of brotherly love, conflict, revenge, and redemption. Religious faith and the spirit of forgiveness are at its core, though not front and center. It is precisely the kind of movie people in a healthy

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