Adam Smith
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This piece appeared in the Sunday Times on 21 June, 2026 In January 1975, President Gerald Ford began his annual address to Congress with a disconcertingly honest line: “The state of our Union is not good.” Traumatised by the rolling crises of Watergate and Vietnam and by the violence and soul-searching of the civil rights…
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This piece appeared in The Sunday Times on 14 December 2024 This is not the way it was supposed to end. Joe Biden has faced more than his fair share of setbacks. “When you get knocked down, get up!” his father, Joseph Biden Sr, would say. And Biden will get up this time, too, after…
Adam Smith: Historian 