I’ve grown bored with the insurrectionists and coup supporters. They are dangerous and yet pathetic in their rank stupidity and hypocrisy. They are banal and empty of anything resembling American spirit. For that reason and many others I am committed to Liz Cheney’s determined effort to remove Orange Man from our political landscape. How…
I’ve grown bored with the insurrectionists and coup supporters. They are dangerous and yet pathetic in their rank stupidity and hypocrisy. They are banal and empty of anything resembling American spirit. For that reason and many others I am committed to Liz Cheney’s determined effort to remove Orange Man from our political landscape. However, even if we rid ourselves of him, THEY will remain. We need to know that the liberal democratic project is still endangered. We must continue the fight for as long as it takes. And for that reason I enjoyed the essay on book collecting. It captures my own love for the printer and physically accessible word. While my own interests lie with history, philosophy and ideas, old books whatever their topic are examples of our best selves. Anything that lasts that long must be treasured and admired as statements of our collective culture. My own library only mesures 1000, but I add each year and hope that my grandson views them as an inheritance worth keeping; but if not, second best is that they end up on another’s book shelves, there to be read, admired and treasured.
I’ve grown bored with the insurrectionists and coup supporters. They are dangerous and yet pathetic in their rank stupidity and hypocrisy. They are banal and empty of anything resembling American spirit. For that reason and many others I am committed to Liz Cheney’s determined effort to remove Orange Man from our political landscape. However, even if we rid ourselves of him, THEY will remain. We need to know that the liberal democratic project is still endangered. We must continue the fight for as long as it takes. And for that reason I enjoyed the essay on book collecting. It captures my own love for the printer and physically accessible word. While my own interests lie with history, philosophy and ideas, old books whatever their topic are examples of our best selves. Anything that lasts that long must be treasured and admired as statements of our collective culture. My own library only mesures 1000, but I add each year and hope that my grandson views them as an inheritance worth keeping; but if not, second best is that they end up on another’s book shelves, there to be read, admired and treasured.