Americans will never shut up or do as we're told ^48.4%

Reason.com - By Matt Welch - 7/3/2026, 11:45 AM

Biased Writer Voice 56.7% - Appeal to Emotion 36.1% - Hasty Generalization 32.5%

In 1757, a full generation before the American Revolution, British soldiers in Albany, New York—the main military staging area for the French and Indian War—demanded that the local sheriff open up his jail to detain a town farmer accused of harassing nearby troops. The sheriff, a physically unimpressive shoemaker in his early 30s named... more