Dec 15, 2022
Too Much Stuff: Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson on Americans and their storage units. The excesses of the American Dream fill 50,000 storage units across the country. This material overflow results from crisis, indecision, laziness and selective forgetfulness.
Dec 9, 2022
With his unprecedented call for the termination of the U.S. Constitution, former presdent Donald Trump seems to ignore the lesson of Andrew Jackson, another aggrieved presidential aspirant who lived to fight – and win – another election. It got our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson thinking.
Nov 23, 2022
Former presidents have managed to talk their way out of trouble, even if by the skin of their teeth. There may be a lesson in that for us today.
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Sep 30, 2022
President and first lady Biden attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. More than 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries from all over the planet made their way to London to attend the funeral.
It was part of a long tradition of world leaders paying respects at the death of a monarch....
Sep 22, 2022
In 1990, a quirky campaign run by the then upstart music channel MTV encouraged its viewers to Rock the Vote. Now, three decades later, we need a similarly audacious bid to have Americans trust the validity of the vote.