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• Jonathan Gienapp, author of The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era, argued in the Boston Globe that Americans’ passion for originalism is misguided when considered in the light of the Founding Fathers’ intentions.
• At the Guardian, Brooke Harrington, author of Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent, compared bad behavior by the ultra rich with that of the poor, noting how commonly such behavior is excused in the first case and vilified in the second.
• Zephyr Teachout, author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United, was named to The Nation’s editorial board, where she will advise on issues including crony capitalism, monopoly power, and corporate-friendly politics.

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September 28: Julian Jackson on Charles de Gaulle (part 2)

Julian Jackson's De Gaulle draws on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile and inspiring leader put his broken nation back at the center of world affairs. Following up on our last post, we had just a few more questions for Professor Jackson. Moral leadership is a hot button topic, especially here in the US. What can we learn from de Gaulle’s conception of political greatness and from his understanding of the qualities that make a great leader? JJ: Before he was a political leader after 1940 de Gaulle was a soldier but also a soldier intellectual. He wrote extensively about leadership in the inter-war years, and had reflec…