From the AEI Archive: The House of Truth
從美國企業研究所檔案：真理之家

The historian James Srodes begins his delightful book On Dupont Circle with a discussion of the young residents of The House of Truth. The group is also the subject of a history, The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism written by Brad Snyder. The boarding house stood at 1727 19th Street and was so named by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as a way of playfully teasing its young progressive residents. A 2012 Washington Post review of Srodes’ book discusses the history of the home in great depth and touches on some of the historical figures who stayed there.
歷史學家詹姆斯·斯羅德斯（James Srodes）在他那本令人愉快的書《論杜邦環島》中以討論真理之家的年輕居民開篇。這個群體也是布拉德·斯奈德（Brad Snyder）所著的《真理之家：華盛頓政治沙龍與美國自由主義的基礎》一書的主題。這座 boarding house 位於第 19 街 1727 號，由大法官奧利弗·溫德爾·霍姆斯（Oliver Wendell Holmes）命名，以此戲謔其年輕的進步派居民。2012 年《華盛頓郵報》對斯羅德斯書籍的評論深入探討了這座房子的歷史，並提及了一些曾在此居住的歷史人物。

The boarding house became the residence of an all-star cast of young movers and shakers at around the time AEI’s current home was being constructed. We discussed that building in an earlier post. The roads forming spokes emanating from Dupont Circle were newly paved and the house’s proximity to the White House and the State, War, and Navy Department offices (now the Old Executive Office Building) made it an ideal location for the young Progressives. Franklin Roosevelt, then undersecretary of the Navy, lived around the corner and was a frequent visitor. Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou—both accomplished engineers—dined there often. Walter Lippman, the founder of the New Republic, resided there first as a bachelor and then with his wife, as did Justice Felix Frankfurter, who met his wife there. On Louis Brandeis’s first trip to Washington, Frankfurter brought him to dinner at the house. Frankfurter noted later, “almost everybody who was interesting in Washington sooner or later passed through the house” during the Taft and Wilson administrations. 
這間寄宿房屋在美國企業研究所（AEI）現址建造時期，成為了一批年輕的傑出人士和影響力人物的住所。我們在之前的文章中討論過那棟建築。從杜邦圓環延伸出的道路剛剛鋪設完畢，這座房子靠近白宮以及國務院、戰爭部和海軍部辦公室（現為老行政辦公大樓），使其成為年輕進步人士的理想地點。當時的海軍副部長富蘭克林·羅斯福住在街角，是這裡的常客。赫伯特·胡佛和他的妻子盧—兩人都是成就卓越的工程師—經常在那裡用餐。新共和國的創始人沃爾特·李普曼最初單身居住在那裡，後來與妻子一同居住，法學家費利克斯·法蘭克福特也是如此，他在那裡遇見了他的妻子。路易斯·布蘭代斯第一次來到華盛頓時，法蘭克福特帶他到這座房子用餐。法蘭克福特後來指出，「在塔夫脫和威爾遜政府時期，幾乎所有在華盛頓有趣的人都會經過這座房子」。

One of the less political residents was the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who drew on the dining room’s tablecloth a model for a sculpture in the Black Hills that would eventually become Mt. Rushmore. We can’t directly compare the dining room spaces at the House of Truth and AEI. However, it is possible to see the passion for intellectual debate and new ideas of those early residents of the House of Truth living on today in the work and research of AEI’s scholars, albeit with a different political orientation. 
其中一位不太政治化的住客是雕塑家古茲頓·博格勒姆，他在餐廳的桌布上繪製了一個位於黑山的雕塑模型，這個模型最終成為了拉什莫爾山。我們不能直接比較真理之家的餐廳空間和美國企業研究所的餐廳空間。然而，我們可以看到真理之家早期住客對於知識辯論和新思想的熱情，如今在美國企業研究所學者的工作和研究中依然延續，儘管政治取向有所不同。