A Private Matter
Excerpt In October 1775, John Adams sat in Philadelphia, directing a rebellion. The British Empire commanded the most formidable fleet on the planet. The colonies possessed nothing resembling a navy,...
Continental Congress
Winner Takes All
Machiavelli on what makes a great leader.
Op-eds
Crossing the Delaware, the Tigris, and the Euphrates
By: Joseph Morisson Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. On the night of December 25, 1776, with the winter wind whipsawing the water, with waves ripping across the bows of their l...