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“In barbarous times superior martial virtues–physical strength, course, skill, discipline–were required to secure a supremacy; and in the hard evolution of mankind, the best and fittest stocks came to the fore. But no such saving guarantee exists today. There is no reason why a base, degenerate, immoral race should not make an enemy far above…
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I first started working on this post after the terror that struck in Orlando back in June at the Pulse nightclub. Since then, dozens of other “senseless acts of terror” have been committed throughout the world. As I both thought about my response and then heard others also pondering a response, the thought of King…
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Yesterday, in my “Wednesday History Note,” I shared Walt Whitman’s scathing takedown of the country in the time of the Gilded Age. That one sentence was focused on the political arena, but the totality of his essay called “Democratic Vistas” was aimed at the nation at large. What he wrote over a century ago rings…