In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final address contains enough wisdom to fill volumes—until, on a whim, I ...

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Spoken or unspoken, all the essays on America’s semiquincentennial that follow in this special symposium conjure with the defining question of our political dispensation. The question was articulated ...

MOUNT VERNON George Washington’s 1796 farewell address contained a stern warning to the nation about partisan politics, or the “dangers of faction” in the language of the Founding Fathers. So when a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert A. Strong, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) The United States will ...