So how can I feel hopeful? I am hopeful because there are those who strive to know, who don’t give up in the face of adversity, but continue to ask questions and take hold of lessons learned in history in order to take action and move forward. I am hopeful because the power of one person may have a decisive impact, and because more than ever before in history, we are able to link these individual voices together, and really hear what they have to say, if only we will listen.
Kenneth Jackson, writing in the New York Times, commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, written in 1657 by Edward Hart and his fellow Flushing, New York, citizens to protest the public torture of a Quaker preacher and the fining and imprisonment of non-Quakers who allowed them to meet in their homes. Jackson notes [...]
With a little Roman history and Latin under your belt, you end up seeing more everywhere….
–Harry Mount, A Vote for Latin.
I completely agree–with a big thank you to Mrs. Robeson, who taught me lingua latina and classical humanities at Lane Technical High School, and introduced me to the depths of world civilizations. Even though [...]
There were people singing this song together who, politically, had nothing in common and probably wouldn’t have talked to each other…. It’s just the story of a little guy against a big world. It’s not so much an anti-war song as a song against stupidity…
At their best, the lists are intended to be guiding abstractions of something deeper and much more complex than any list: the collected wisdom and practice of a whole community, whether of mathematicians, writers, historians, or scientists. That knowledge is fully present only in the community itself, and distilling it into a list is a deeply self-reflective exercise for practitioners in any field of human activity.
