GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
EISENHOWER’S THREE WARNINGS.
Often cited and promoted solely as the Eisenhower speech that warned against “the military industrial complex,” the speech in it’s more extended version actually contained three distinct warnings to America from the departing President. 1. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the […]
Neil Postman AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH 1985
Few books I have read on the effects of technology on culture have stood the test of time as well as Amusing Ourselves to Death. “It may be true, as Charles Beard wrote, that the primary motivation of the writers of the United States Constitution was the protection of their economic interests. But it is also […]
