One obvious error, actually in the larger scheme of things an enormous error given his topic, he today accuses Hamilton of having recklessly associated Jefferson with the bloody jacobins of the French Revolution.
That is exactly what Jefferson was; Hamilton was hardly reckless, in fact the opposite, to have said so, and it is easy to show that it was quite, and obviously, true.
See Palmer, Struggle, p. 267, and references cited.
Of course, Taylor goes off later in the article and blindly waves the flag as a global superpower over the revolutionary mess they bequethed to us and to everyone in the West, but that is only to be expected from the NYT, which after all has to sell copy to us.
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