In an election year, Americans need fewer hot takes and more cool-headed reasoning

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I’m writing this article with a pen. And not just a regular pen. A quill pen. 

It’s a goose feather I’ve carved with a straight razor into a sharp point and dipped in ink. 

I’m doing this because I spent a year trying to live like the Founding Fathers. It was an attempt to learn whatever life wisdom I could from them — and one of my favorite parts of that year was writing with ye olde quill pen. 

NEW YORK CITY MAN ‘LIVED’ THE CONSTITUTION FOR A YEAR. HERE ARE 7 THINGS HE LEARNED 

There are downsides to writing with a quill. 

My desk is so splattered with ink stains it looks like a Jackson Pollock painting. 

A.J. Jacobs in a split

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