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This is the grave of Gifford Pinchot. Like most Progressives, Gifford Pinchot's legacy is deeply complicated. The nation's first major forester, a process begun with his father felt terrible for all the damage he had caused to the American landscape, Pinchot fought to place some...

The Paternalist Alphabet

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On February 15, 2015
In the 1910s, as workers around the nation were organizing and striking with greater militancy, employers and the government finally began to pay attention to their plight. That certainly didn't mean that employers would accept unions. But it did mean that employers began seeking ways...

Objects to a Tax

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On December 3, 2014
I was rummaging around the other day in my office and came across this old letter to the editor of the journal Western Field and Stream (one of the precursors to the modern Field and Stream) from October 1897: Objects to a Tax Editor Western...
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