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Jay Cost, PhD

Jay Cost, PhD

Visiting Scholar | Columnist | Writer | Editor — National Review Online | American Enterprise Institute | Weekly Standard

Jay Cost is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard and has written for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Commentary. He holds a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Chicago. He lives in Harmony, Pennsylvania. He is the author of three books, most recently The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy.

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The Price of Greatness

In the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal falling out...

Featured on: Thursday, July 19, 2018

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