Our latest example began with Barack Obama. He was asked whether he believed in American exceptionalism – a basic American tenet which goes back to Thomas Jefferson’s empire of liberty, Abraham Lincoln’s almost-chosen people, and Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill. Obama answered, “Y...
The son of German and Scottish immigrants, this actor grew up in a working-class family in Queens, New York, and got his start playing extras in various films as a child during the golden age of television in the 1950s. Christopher Walken STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images Christoph...