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FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #49: Monticello
...Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the US, might also be called the patron saint of the state of Virginia....
January 5, 2024
Letter
Letter: The science of wellbeing — an idea whose time has come
...They all believed, as Thomas Jefferson put it, that “the care of human life and happiness . . . is the sole legitimate objective of government”....
March 29, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
News updates from February 22: Global stock markets hit record highs, Nvidia smashes record for one-day valuation increase
What to watch in North America
...Thomas in Minneapolis....
February 22, 2024
OutlookPatti Waldmeir
Cicada-geddon: a rare insect event draws fans to the Midwest
...The last time was in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was US president....
April 15, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: House to vote on Ukraine aid
...Opinion: The pace of China’s post-pandemic development should be a wake-up call for western manufacturers, writes Thomas Hale....
April 16, 2024
FT MagazineSimon Kuper
No news is bad news
...“If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be,” wrote the American founding father Thomas Jefferson....
March 21, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewBooks
The Crisis of Culture by Olivier Roy — a remarkable achievement
...We are no longer interested in making sense of Thomas Jefferson or Robespierre in the context of their own times. We do not believe that the past is historically a different time....
March 22, 2024
Disrupted Times
‘Reality check’ for the green transition
...Forget the solar eclipse, the latest big show for American nature-watchers is cicada-geddon: a natural phenomenon that last happened when Thomas Jefferson was US president in 1803....
April 19, 2024
ExplainerUS presidential election 2024
Who are the candidates vying to be Trump’s running mate?
...Jefferson....
February 6, 2024
Venice Biennale 2024
Rising nationalism and falling funding are reshaping the Venice Biennale
...The US pavilion, which is modelled on Thomas Jefferson’s porticoed slave plantation, Monticello, took on a whole new meaning in 2022 when Simone Leigh remodelled the building to resemble a clay hut with...
April 13, 2024
FT Swamp Notes
Can gym diplomacy still save Washington? Premium content
...My husband, who wrote a book about Alexander Hamilton, likes to remind me about how one of the great political compromises of all time was made over dinner when Hamilton and his antagonist, Thomas Jefferson...
October 6, 2023
ReviewNon-Fiction
Property by Rowan Moore — it’s never just bricks and mortar
...Thomas Jefferson didn’t think so, writes Moore, which is why the Declaration of Independence numbers “the pursuit of Happiness” among man’s inalienable rights, rather than “property”, as appeared in an earlier...
November 28, 2023
Corporate culture
We have a ‘generational opportunity’ to stop using that phrase
...Thomas Jefferson’s (probably lifted) phrase is seldom more true than when it comes to corporate speak, or whatever you want to label the finance industry’s endemic proclivity for linguistic defecation....
October 6, 2023
Edward Luce
Joe Biden’s year of living dangerously
...Bush Sr was defeated by Bill Clinton; Thomas Jefferson ejected Adams; Ronald Reagan trounced Carter; and JFK, who was murdered after barely 1,000 days in office, was followed by his vice-president, Lyndon...
November 10, 2023
Sarah Churchwell
Donald Trump’s indictment is a reminder of a sorry history
...Thomas Jefferson urged the prosecution of Burr, Wood argued, precisely because he feared the consequences for the republican experiment if nakedly corrupt politics were permitted to undermine disinterested...
April 3, 2023
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
ReviewVisual Arts
The National’s Scottish galleries reopen with light and space but need to tell a better story
...Jefferson....
September 28, 2023
Richard Layard
Make wellbeing central to public policy
...The writer is an economist at the London School of Economics and co-author of ‘Wellbeing: Science and Policy’ Thomas Jefferson once said: “The care of human life and happiness . . . is the first and only...
March 6, 2023
The Weekend Essay
From Putin to Musk: the making of a modern-day oligarch
...(He wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1787, responding to the newly written US Constitution: “You are afraid of the one — I of the few . . . You are Apprehensive of Monarchy; I, of Aristocracy.)...
October 28, 2023
Letter
Letter: Villa particulars stir revolutionary memories
...Professor Samuel WeeksThomas Jefferson UniversityPhiladelphia, PA, US...
March 4, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: Pressure grows on JPMorgan over Epstein links
...Take a break from the news Thomas H Lee, the financier who led some of the private equity industry’s most successful deals during the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 78....
February 24, 2023
HTSI
Mad about mimosa
...US president Thomas Jefferson called it “the most delicious flowering shrub in the world” and grew it in the garden of his Charlottesville plantation Monticello, where it continues to flourish....
January 27, 2023
ReviewFT Books Essay
How America picks its battles
...America’s journey from Thomas Jefferson’s aversion to foreign entanglements to its post-1945 restructuring of the international order was stuttering and painful....
January 25, 2023
FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
Salman Rushdie and the sacred right to irreverence
...That reeking note was, however, one of the foundational documents of American democracy, written by president-elect Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists....
August 19, 2022
InterviewVisual Arts
Artist Barbara Chase-Riboud: ‘I sculpt what I can’t write and write what I can’t sculpt’
...Then, in 1979, under the encouragement of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, she published her first historical novel, Sally Hemings, exploring the enslaved woman’s relationship with Thomas Jefferson....
October 15, 2022
FT Magazine
Séamas O’Reilly’s fantasy dinner: a tragicomic fiasco unfurls at Enya’s Dublin castle
...Jefferson....
August 6, 2022

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