Neither Briggs nor Marquand knows what to do when faced with this utter disregard for the old certainties and values they had grown up with, had held onto for the lack of any others (chasing after material rewards and filthy lucre being, of course, beyond the pale, or at least, the doma...
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The choice to populate the film with zero star power ultimately is not the reason the film failed to pull in more of an audience because there are plenty of films that do well with little known, non A-list names, and nonactor finds. No, the real problem with howNebraskafared had more ...
He is a politico — a Democrat speechwriter for Mayor turned candidate Bloomberg — and he cares about civic life, the common good, the human scale of politics and the history of folks working together. Not only do we learn a whole bunch of historical things along the way of this huge ...
Inevitably, the story alone is well worth the price of the book — some are about accidental death, racial trauma, suicide, mental health issues, and more — but the extra insight gleaned in conversation with another expert makes it brim with take-aways and practical insight for caring. The...
Ickes had a legitimate argument that the government could better ensure the conservation of forest land by transferring the Forest Service to Interior, but the cause was, in fact, driven as much by personal ambition as civic vision. When Ickes first brought up the idea with FDR in early ...
perhaps this made them reluctant to meet foreigners lest some of the issues inadvertently get talked about.” In Beijing, she is caught up in a whirl of glamorous diplomatic receptions for foreign guests, hears a lecture by Joan Robinson, even shakes hands with both Mao Zedong and Zhou ...
Writing about the carefree ‘joie de vivre’of her childhood, the warmth and unity of family life, her education in civic, republican values, Simone Veil concludes ‘we received the best arms with which to face life.’ Elsewhere she talks about the human capacity to preserve the will to liv...
There also is a civic interest served by having the population at large leavened by millions of fans. They are spectators of a game that rewards, and then elicits, a remarkable level of intelligence from those who compete. To be an intelligent fan is to participate in something. It is an...
One’s civic duty is not to identify the wise minority and put them in power, but to disseminate the tools of education so the majority can become wise. This thesis is opposed to aristocracy, to oligarchy, to timocracy, even to most forms of meritocracy, since education isn’t supposed ...