People who dismiss television with upturned noses and tired homages to Newton Minow's vast wasteland annoy me almost as much as people who drive with their foglights on when it isn't foggy. They say ...

Benjamin Franklin portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1778, featured in the Ken Burns documentary “Benjamin Franklin” on PBS. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York via PBS Benjamin Franklin (8 ...

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Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...