The week started with fog. Not the poetic kind. The kind that shuts down visibility, slows traffic to a crawl, and earns an official warning. “Radiation fog,” the alerts said, which immediately did what that phrase always does — it set off a small internal alarm before the brain caught…
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The President’s Daughter Eliza Monroe Hay Who Came Home After 185 Years
When Barbara VornDick lifted a yellowed letter from a gray archival box at William & Mary, she didn’t expect to feel a voice grab her by the collar. The handwriting was frantic, the words desperate. “I am now in distress, in ill health, & in a foreign country,” the writer…
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The Founders Didn’t Predict TikTok—But They Did Predict Demagogues
If you missed it, The Atlantic just kicked off a 250-year gut check on the American experiment, and Fintan O’Toole opened with a hard truth: our debates about the Founders often sound like a ventriloquist act. We move our lips to say what we want to hear. The package is…