History, Trumpism, and the Federalist Party

BAD HISTORY is back—in more ways than one.

You may or may not have noticed that I paused BAD HISTORY for August. You weren’t charged for that month, so I hope you put the savings into long-term investments instead of indulging in ephemeral pleasures. The pause enabled me to resume the policy of this blog: keeping well behind the news cycles and exploring only matters that are weeks old and thus …