Enlightenment ideals serve as the basis of progressive politics, writes Thomas de Zengotita, an adjunct associate professor of interdisciplinary studies in humanities and social thought at New York ...

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Alexander Hamilton and his colleagues wrote 85 separate essays to make their case that Americans should take a risk and ratify the 1787 Constitution. Three sentences into the very first of those ...

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