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The American Revolution Was So Much Weirder Than You Think

Alongside the Enlightenment reason we associate with the founding there were mystics, occultists, and conspiracy theorists.
by Nicole Penn via The Bulwark on June 30, 2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glad to the Brink of Fear

A new biography reveals how Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Americans a vocabulary to understand themselves in an era even more tempestuous than our own.
by Nicole Penn via American Purpose on March 13, 2024
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