government, The Freethinking Times https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/topics/government/ Articles tagged government at The Freethinking Times en The Pentagon Papers at Fifty-Plus: What We Actually Learned https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/pentagon-papers-lessons/ https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/pentagon-papers-lessons/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The publication of the Pentagon Papers is remembered as a triumph of press freedom. The deeper lesson — about institutional deception and its durability — is less often drawn. History The Editors