“It’s about time.” That was my reaction to the great Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham’s recent declaration that she would no longer watch the National Football League in the aftermath of the screwjob the league has apparently pulled on Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers star who’s being treated like a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter […]
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The Most Important Founder You’ve Never Heard Of
James Wilson, later a Supreme Court justice, signed the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He presaged Lincoln by insisting the former owed much to the latter.
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