The Transcendence of Liberty I’ve told this story before, of the time in 1991 I attended a birthday party for a law professor at a university in USSR Ukraine. Around three tables pushed together, in a dimly lit room, in early-winter, there…
Category: American Exceptionalism
A Republic, Where a Man Can Walk Free, Drunk or Sober; An Homage
In the 1960 film “The Alamo” John Wayne, playing Davy Crockett, made this speech: “Republic, I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, come and go, buy or sell, drunk or sober, however they choose.”…
GOP Candidates and the Presidential Gut-Check
In 1966, I worked one summer with an upperclassman from Princeton at a camp for rich kids. (That’s where I learned to cuss.) His family was friends with other New Englanders who had known the Kennedys, and JFK had only been…