Teaching the American founding as the story of great statesmen gathering to create the first large-scale republic in human history out of sheer genius and public-spiritedness is not merely false ...

The operating logic behind much of this seems to be akin to the old Great Man theory of history, which attributed to certain exceptional individuals outsized abilities to shape events. This is a ...

The idea behind the Great Man Theory, which philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle originally posited, is that great men have always been at the front and centre of all of humankind’s greatest ...