I cant stop thinking about those shoeless soldiers in Valley Forge bleeding all over the frozen ground.
I can’t stop thinking about those shoeless soldiers at Valley Forge in the snow. Bennett Miller

I wrote about her book Lafayette in the Somewhat United States here, but if you don’t like to read, you can always just listen to Sarah Vowell talking about it instead.

Discussed: George Washington, Marie Antoinette, the Revolutionary War, the French, L. Ron Hubbard, gunpowder, Colonial Williamsburg, Herman Melville, the American tendency toward disunion, Congress, the silent-reading party, Quakers, jokes, death by exposure, the musical Hamilton, and the time a man came up to her at a reading and said, “You know what I hate about you?”

Listen here.

Programming note: I may have defined “crust punk” incorrectly. I called George Washington a crust punk.

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...