Physicist at Large

For some reason I don't have it in me to laboriously type out every awesome quote in chapters 13-14. I'll just note two things: 1)...

Hofstadter had a lot to say about the history of American education and attitudes towards teachers. Teaching has never been a high-status pr...

Just a few scattered thoughts.  I don't have it in me to blog chapters 10-11 in detail, and I'm only part-way through chapter 12. ...

Just a few quick thoughts. Chapter 7: The only other thing that leaped out from it was that Teddy Roosevelt was, in many ways, a pretty in...

On page 159, Hofstadter quotes a description of the 1824 election as a contest between: John Quincy Adams who can write And Andrew Jackso...

Before starting with Chapter 7, I want to note something from Chapter 6: On pages 167-168, Hofstadter notes that Jefferson was able to invit...

In Chapter 6, Hofstadter discusses the fall of the intellectual aristocrats from the Founding generation.  His take is that America ceased t...