It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

There’s a whole lot of false consciousness running around. How to battle against it?  It’s a matter of public health.  It’s ...

(Franklin denied it, writing he would “do nothing unworthy the Character of an honest Man, and one that loves his Family.”) But as month after month passed with no word on Benjamin’s voyage ...

And—in ways that are becoming increasingly apparent at the time of writing—a man who was actively complicit in the slave trade. President John Adams hailed Franklin’s benefaction “to his c ...