It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an illegitimate child and stole his best friend's girlfriend. He also wrote a friend a ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

Taxed until you die. Perhaps we don’t remind ourselves enough of Benjamin Franklin’s words; that these are the only two true ...