Gerald R. Ford Leadership Forum
By Jeff Polet I’ll confess that in my youth I was often regarded as mischievous, a moniker I’ve never fully outgrown and one in which I take some perverse delight. At a forum such as ours, committed as it is to rejuvenating virtue, it would seem that mischief would have no place. So it was …
by Jeff Polet For many college professors, especially in the humanities, reading books is more than a habit, it’s compulsory. We can’t imagine not doing it. As the Preacher said millennia ago “to the making of books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” I don’t think I could …
by Glenn Moots James McHenry of Maryland, one of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, recorded in his diary a now-famous story about Benjamin Franklin. After the convention, Franklin purportedly crossed paths with Elizabeth Powel. Mrs. Powel and her husband were well-connected Philadelphians. McHenry writes that Mrs. Powel, curious about the outcome of the convention, …
