Finland is an exotic, far-away country in the eyes of Americans; a nation we erroneously classify as Scandinavian and imagine as bedecked with reindeer. Beyond this, we know two things about the Finns: they invented Nokia, and they have the world’s best schools. Well, you know, except for the Asians, but they’re in their own…
Month: February 2017
Andrew Johnson, America’s Most Hated POTUS
In honor of President’s Day: Andrew Johnson, the 17th POTUS, is way more interesting than he will ever be given credit for because of our tendency to filter history through a lens referred to as the Whig historiography, or in more modern parlance, the “progressive view of history”. I.e. there’s a steady line of improvement…