BEING AN ACCOUNT of Those Brave Souls Who Did Print and Distribute the Arguments of Liberty, and a Consideration of What Their Example Demands of Us in This Present Age. Before the printing press was a business, it was a weapon of liberty. In the years before and during the American Revolution, the pamphlet was the medium through which an entire people was persuaded that self-governance was not only possible but necessary. Thomas Paine's Common Sense, published in January 177

FROM THE BROADSHEET — On the Relationship Between Trade, Labor, and the Republic, Being a Dispatch Offered in the Spirit of Those Who First Considered These Questions in the Infancy of This Nation. The merchant builds wealth. The laborer builds the nation. The republic survives only when neither is exploited by the other. This was understood, imperfectly but sincerely, by the founders — who were themselves merchants, lawyers, farmers, and tradesmen, and who had experienced fi

On Foreign Entanglements: A Warning from the Pages of History THE BROADSHEET — MAY 1796. There is a species of wisdom that arrives too late for the man who ignored it and too early for the generation that has not yet suffered the consequences of his error. George Washington understood this when he penned his Farewell Address to the citizens of these United States. His warning against permanent alliances and foreign entanglements was not the counsel of an isolationist fearful

Great Tumult in the Congress: On the Ruinous State of the Federal Purse THE BROADSHEET — By Our Correspondent in the Capital. Ye Federal Purse Lays in Grievous Ruin as Our Representatives Doth Spend Without Restraint. It is with heavy heart and heavier ledger that this Broadsheet must report to the citizens of this republic upon the calamitous condition of the national treasury, which doth bleed coin at a rate that would cause any honest merchant to take to his bed in anguish