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“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made,” Saxe was an American poet most noted for his sharing of the Indian parable about blind men and an elephant. He became involved in politics in the tumultuous 1850s. He lived in Vermont. Politics in Vermont is just…
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I was re-reading Psalm 1 the other day. The first psalm in the collection has long been a favorite of mine (of many people). The first three verses contain a depth of wisdom about how to live well, a good strategy. I think that not only can it guide an individual, but there is insight…
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When I teach my history classes, especially the one on modern US history, I am often asked what I would do to fix the country. I‘ve written on this before and I stand by all of my suggestions. Yet, in the wake of yet another confusing and perhaps disastrous election, I come back to what…