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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…
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The official services of America, national, state, and municipal, in all their branches and departments, except the judiciary, are saturated in corruption, bribery, falsehood, mal-administration; and the judiciary is tainted. Written in 1892, at a time much like our own today, Whitman’s words echo strongly, and sadly, as we consider this tragedy of a…