Hint: It isn’t the government.

Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Margo Jefferson sits down with the debut novelist to discuss his literary mystery, from ...

How Benjamin Franklin understood psychological principles to help guide him to an extraordinary life, and what you can learn ...

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Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin ... For Franklin, it starts early. In 1717, having alarmed his Puritan father with talk of a life on the seas, 12-year-old Franklin is set up as ...

But what does that mean? Thinking about this, my mind turned to a recent book about Benjamin Franklin by journalist Eric Weiner, “Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and ...

American statesman Benjamin Franklin crossed the Atlantic ... As a young man, Franklin drew up a list of 13 virtues he intended to follow. One was sincerity, or honesty. And that he was ...

“But classical and Enlightenment thinkers defined happiness as the pursuit of virtue — as being good, rather than feeling good.” Portrait of Benjamin Franklin engraving 1859. (Getty ...

When we heard that Michael Douglas was going to play Benjamin Franklin in a new Apple TV+ series, we had our doubts.But after watching the first episode of the series, which depicts the 70-year ...