How the long rifle won the American Revolution 17.9%
Reason.com - By David Kopel - 6/28/2026, 10:00 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 24.4% - Hasty Generalization 19.4% - Halo Effect 8.8%
In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country's founding people and ideas. Read more here. "No bigger than half a piece of soap" was how history remembered the diminutive James Madison, who weighed barely a hundred pounds. At 5 feet, 4 inches tall, he would later become the shortest American president ever. Yet... more