Nobody knows if Adam Hamilton will win in Kansas. But he’s already defined a populism of decency.

Nobody knows if Adam Hamilton will win in Kansas. But he’s already defined a populism of decency.

At 7:30 on a September night in 1897, two trains collided on the Santa Fe railway about three miles northeast of Emporia. An eastbound mail train smashed into the Mexico and California Express, a passenger train pulled by a pair of steam locomotives. The express, which had seven or eight full coaches, was on its […]

Nobody knows if Adam Hamilton will win in Kansas. But he’s already defined a populism of decency

William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska delivers a campaign speech in 1908. Bryan, who died in 1925, ran unsuccessfully for president three times but is largely forgotten today. (Photo by Library of Congress) At 7:30 on a September night in 1897, two trains collided on the Santa Fe railway about three miles northeast of Emporia. An eastbound mail train smashed into...