No need to feel ‘ambient’ about starvation in Gaza
Naomi Klein wrote a recent column in The Guardian about a protest speech at the Academy Awards by Jonathan Glazer, who was accepting the Best International Film award for The Zone of Interest inspired...
American Insights
The Right to Resist
Born at Cape Cod and educated at Harvard, the Reverend Samuel West was a patriot. But above all, he was a devoted servant of God who sought to live in accordance...
American Insights
Rescuing the Experiment
As the snow fell at Mount Vernon in March 1785, George Washington was deeply concerned. Two years after the Treaty of Paris ended the War of Independence, America faced imminent ruin.
The 1780s...
American Insights
Lincoln at Independence Hall
The president-elect reached Philadelphia at 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 21, 1861. In response to warm greetings, Abraham Lincoln told a crowd that he hoped “to restore peace and harmony and...
American Insights
The Lessons of The Federalist
On Saturday, October 27, 1787, the first of eighty-five essays under the pseudonym “Publius” appeared in the New York Independent Journal. Written by New Yorker Alexander Hamilton, the purpose of...
American Insights
The Tragedy of B. F. Randolph
On Wednesday, January 15, 1868, Benjamin Franklin Randolph opened the second day of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention with a prayer. Brief but moving, Randolph exhorted God to “fill...
A mop isn’t enough
Prominent contributors to the income and well-being of this city have incurred massive infrastructural damage to their home due to the city’s lack of proper sewage infrastructure and neglect of care. For over 20...
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James Otis’s Fight
In February 1761, almost four months after George III’s ascension, the first major controversy surrounding imperial policy gripped Boston politics. That month, royal customs agents visited James Otis, a thirty-six-year-old, stout attorney...
Shattering a mosaic
A couple years back, I met someone who told me if I ever had a good idea, to please reach out. So, at the beginning of December of last year, I did just that....
