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Continue reading →: How far are you buried today?
It seems on a daily basis, and with a large and growing number of people, I find the most searching and unspoken question to be: How far are you buried today? #PoliticalHumor (H/T: Alan Jacobs)
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Continue reading →: The allure of beauty
“What quality is it that contains at once this simplicity and this majesty, this softness and this strength? . . . It is what all of Us — the terribly intelligent, the unhappy, the artistic, the divided, the overwhelmed — most intimately worship, and most passionately, most vainly love.” —…
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Continue reading →: Saving a Nation
My maternal grandmother was a young woman during the Great Depression—the period between 1929 and the eve of WWII, 1939. During those lean years she worked on the family farm in Danville, Virginia. The struggles and hardships of that decade were always in some way part of her life story.…
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Continue reading →: James Madison and the Indispensable Provision
Since the U.S. House of Representatives voted to formalize an Impeachment Inquiry today, I thought it a good time to reflect on first principles. In July of 1787 the Founding Fathers were still in Philadelphia drafting our Constitution. James Madison, known in our history as the Father of the U.S.…
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Continue reading →: The growing gap between the educated and uneducated is a serious threat to our way of life
“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free,” Jefferson said, “expects what never was and never will be.” And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the…
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Jeff Wills 