How tempting it is, to use the birthday of a famous figure like Benjamin Franklin to bemoan the present day! How very easy it would be to use Franklin’s birthday to write unflattering comparisons of ...

The public is invited to a free and festive event to celebrate Benjamin Franklin’s 318th birthday on Friday, February 9 from 10am to 1pm at the Benjamin Franklin Hall of the American Philosophical ...

Humility does not seem to be a virtue today. Watch a football game: a linebacker does his job — he tackles a guy — and jumps up in a dance as if he’s just cured cancer. Every other politician seems to ...

This month marks Benjamin Franklin’s 320th birthday. Near the end of his life, he wondered what life would be like “two or three centuries hence.” Well, here we are. What would Franklin make of it? He ...