A look at the history and documents that laid the groundwork for the freedoms we have today.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here we are, halfway through the year, and I need to account for myself. I’ve posted only intermittently over the past 20 weeks. Partly that was because of the state of the world. I worked on projects, both personal and professional, that interfered with a three-days-a-week deadline. I was also dealing with a lack of […]
Read More Week in review: Week 26Reading Time: < 1 minute The State Anthem of Ukraine is a prayer and a promise from a people who have persevered over the centuries.
Read More Ще не вмерла УкраїниReading Time: < 1 minute The French have been singing this anthem since 1792. Free people will fight back in every way they can when despots seek to become their masters.
Read More ‘Marchons, marchons!’Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s officially Washington’s Birthday, squeezing Lincoln off the federal calendar. But it reminds us that presidents are, truly, just people.
Read More Presidents DayReading Time: 2 minutes MGM made FDR’s 1942 Fireside Chat on inflation into a propaganda short. The devil is still in the details.
Read More ‘Inflation’ — The movieReading Time: < 1 minute Abraham Lincoln had two faces: A gentle, humorous right side and a “primitive” left side. Doctors explain why.
Read More The two faces of Honest AbeReading Time: < 1 minute Writers often have to decide which is more important: literal accuracy or historical truth. Screenwriter Tony Kushner said he had his reasons.
Read More The wrong side of historyReading Time: < 1 minute There are chilling similarities between 1942 and 2022, both in Europe and in the Pacific. Here, too. “I bet they’re asleep in New York. I bet they’re asleep all over America.”
Read More “Vive la démocratie!”Reading Time: 2 minutes The slain civil rights leader’s legacy remains controversial, even today. But I admire his vision. We should concentrate on things that bring us together.
Read More Martin Luther King’s BirthdayReading Time: 2 minutes This Sunday is Religious Freedom Day. This is the story of one family’s two-year battle to worship as they pleased in colonial New Netherlands.
Read More A victory for religious liberty
