I was walking in the woods. I ran into Thomas Jefferson. He was carrying a box, wrapped in a bow. “Which state is this?” he asked. Michigan, I said. “Hmm, I don’t know that one.” What’s in the box, Thomas? “A present for the country. By my calculations, you...
He was the third President of the United States, the most intellectual figure in shaping America’s early history, and a voice of reason in his own time as well as today. The thought is enough to imagine him rolling in his grave, but, like fellow Founding Father, Thomas Paine,...