Does this sound familiar? A president comes into office promising to make America great. Actually, in 1920, Warren G. Harding’s promise was a “return to normalcy,” but he meant the same thing – a reversal of everything his progressive predecessors … Continue reading
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Once the world that people were born into was indistinguishable from the one they left after their three score and ten. Beginning with the Renaissance, accelerating change has become the new normal. The result has been a pervasive feeling that … Continue reading
I am working my way through “These Truths,” the masterful history of America by Harvard professor and “New Yorker” contributor Jill Lepore. I’ve reached Reconstruction and am heading for Robber Barons. It should be required reading in every high school … Continue reading