Binney, Horace, life and letters. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

There is wide agreement that the most important essay ever written about American democracy is Madison’s “Federalist No. 10.” Madison was not an especially successful president, ...

The Federalist-enacted Sedition Act famously expired when the Federalist President John Adams's term was going to end. But it turns out the Federalists proved to be more principled than this ...