“The Christmas holidays are near at hand” (Hamilton 49)

In which Hamilton discusses holiday plans with his son. The following letter is from Alexander Hamilton to his son 9-year-old son Philip, who was at school in Trenton. Hamilton was at…

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Capitalist Christmas, 2016

Jewelry on Madison Avenue, in the 60s More on Madison Avenue Bergdorf Goodman, Fifth Avenue at 59th Tiffany, Fifth Avenue at 57th St. Time Warner Center Rockefeller Center New York…

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Happy Thanksgiving to America the Productive

Thanksgiving, said Ayn Rand, is the "producers' holiday." Since I'm hanging out in the eighteenth century with Alexander Hamilton, I thought I'd share his contemporary Patrick Henry's vision of America's…

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Columbus Day Salute

Washington Irving on Columbus Certain it is that at the beginning of the fifteenth century, when the most intelligent minds were seeking in every direction for the scattered lights of…

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