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They Raided the Public Trust and Called It Reform
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold of us.”
—Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Lantern, a short update from Fo...
The Court of 2040 Is on the Ballot
“The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution.”
—Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 78
Dear Friends,
Imagine a student in 2040 flipping through an American history textbook. This c...
The Enemy List Has a New Filing Cabinet
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
—James Madison, Federalist No. 51
Dear Friends,
Sometimes a single appointment reveals the whole design. Not the speech, not the announcement, not the official explanation, but the person...
The White House Is Not a Pay-Per-View Venue
“When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.”
— Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791)
Dear Friends,
We...
The Oligarchs Came for 60 Minutes
“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.”
—Benjamin Franklin, writing as Silence Dogood, 1722
Dear Friends,
Sometimes, a free society needs to pa...
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