The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein

The president and the physicist teach us a lesson about moral genius

Nautilus
7 min readSep 21, 2018

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Illustration: Steve Brodner

By Andrew O’Hehir

Abraham Lincoln would still be remembered today as a self-taught prairie prodigy and an astute political operator who crushed the Confederate uprising, even without the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the end of…

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