Rabu, 04 Oktober 2017

We’ve Been Here Before: Do Eggheads Make Great Presidents?

Before he became president, Barack Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. He can speak with a professorial manner today. The Princeton academic Kwame Anthony Appiah even called him the Professor President. But Obama is hardly our first. At least half a dozen other presidents have been bona fide intellectuals. It’s …

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