Lady Liberty's Pedestal

The State of Nature & Social Contract, Part III: Collective and Individual Secured

In today’s conclusion of our three-part series on The State of Nature & Social Contract, we are going to both look at those thinkers who dismiss the…

Aug 31 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

The State of Nature & Social Contract, Part II: Individual Against the World

In Part I we laid out the stakes: in the interest of understanding the moral divisions in American society and how to overcome them, the question we’re…

Aug 24 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

The State of Nature & the Social Contract, Part I: The Stakes

Why do Americans both zealously agree and disagree?

Aug 17 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

The Right Way to Tell History

Virginia is for (History) Lovers. What I encountered at Monticello.

Aug 3 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

July 2025

Gouverneur Morris: Founder and Traitor

When partisan rage blinds, it disgraces. A cautionary tale.

Jul 20 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

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June 2025

Smother Incendiary Stories

Imagine a world without them

Jun 30 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

To Affect the Quality of the Day

Our Democracy and fellow citizens deserve the same reverence as we give our lives

Jun 18 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

Pretended Patriotism

George W and the work required to love one’s country

Jun 1 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

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May 2025

The Importance of What We Care About

Note: My Book, Pedestal: What Makes American Democracy Stable And Why Your Everyday Thoughts, Words & Actions Determine Its Success is now available in…

May 18 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

April 2025

Both Correct & Both Blind

Lesson for the Right and Left from Booker Taliaferro Washington and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

Apr 27 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

The News Killeth, but History Giveth Life

Thomas Hardy defangs the Houthis

Apr 22 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen

Profile in Effective Association

In praise of John Russell and those like him who get stuff done and listen to others

Apr 1 • 

Raphael Chayim Rosen