Today we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Of all the great men of the revolutionary era to whom we owe our freedom, Washington s greatness was the rarest and the most needed. At this remove in time, it is also the hardest to comprehend. Take, for example, Washington s contribution to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Washington s mere presence lent the undertaking and its handiwork the legitimacy that
Whether by toppling statues or neglecting the study of his life, we’ve been trying to cancel the Father of Our Nation for some time now. But it can’t be done. Some people are just too awesome.