Matthew Spalding
Though his image still is widely recognizable, and his name adorns cities, counties, towns, and streets across the country, today’s students assuredly know more about Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber than the victorious commander of the American Revolution and the…
Tomorrow, Donald Trump will be sworn in as America’s 45th president. He will have achieved that office by running as a populist — attuned to millions of citizens who are discontent with the elite politics and bureaucratic rule that is…
“I’d be very happy to tell them I’m not a liberal at all.” — John F. Kennedy, 1953 THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF John Fitzgerald Kennedy after the July 4, 1946, speech at Boston’s Faneuil Hall caution of the hazards of drawing…
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY three years after Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous speech at Cooper Union, the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, appeared in the same hall to deliver a graduation address. In those recent remarks, Bloomberg paid…
