AFTER THE STANDARD & POOR’S downgrade in early August, it didn’t take long for the blame game to begin. Predictably, the mainstream media blamed the Republicans. The problem began with the November 2010 election, when a group of Tea Party…
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary WorldBy Maya Jasanoff(Knopf, 480 pages, $30) Maya Jasanoff’s splendid new book, Liberty’s Exiles, celebrates the idea of ordered liberty that American Loyalists took with them in exile, first to Canada, and then throughout…
