Category: Ben Franklin

It’s All in the Details

February 16, 2023
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“I don’t do details. I’m a big-picture kind of person.” The visionaries who make this formula work possess the wisdom to surround themselves with competent subordinates or colleagues, men and women who make the dream come true by focusing on specifics. Whether a CEO in a major corporation or the owner of a small software…

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‘Join, or Die’: Ben Franklin’s Warning of a Divided America

January 4, 2022
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Benjamin Franklin published “Join, or Die”—now considered to be the most famous colonial political cartoon—on May 9, 1754. It appeared in “The Disunited State,” an editorial in his Pennsylvania Gazette, which was the most successful newspaper in the colonies at that time. The symbolism of the cartoon’s fragmented snake is significant, and the message is…

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‘Follow the Science’ a Potent Source of Authority for Politicians

December 10, 2021
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News Analysis To hear the way some politicians talk, when it comes to COVID-19, they’re all “Following The Science,” not to mention “The Data.” “Look at the data. Follow the science. Listen to the experts. Be smart,” tweeted now-former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in May 2020, after “Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve” had…

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