This summer, Joe Biden met with a group of historians. Last summer, Donald Trump also met with a group of historians. Their discussions were ... different. (via MaddowBlog)
It’s not unusual for American presidents to hold conversations with historians, who can help provide far broader contexts outside of day-to-day developments in the White House. Barack Obama, for example, hosted several meetings with leading scholars, who came to realize the Democrat“the lessons of past presidential triumphs and failures to his own urgent project of setting the country on a new path.
With this in mind, it didn’t come as too big of a surprise to learn that our incumbent president recently hosted a related White House conversation. The Washington PostPresident Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad. The conversation during a ferocious lightning storm on Aug.