by Luke C. Sheahan President Jimmy Carter was castigated for infamously describing a malaise infecting the American people. Critics pounced. Surely if a nation is afflicted with malaise, its national leader bears some of the blame. Few could find in such an expression inspiration to action. Whatever the merit of that indictment in the 1970s, […]
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by Jeff Polet Most of our readers will know about the Philadelphia Convention in the summer of 1787 and assume that it had to replace the ineffectual Articles of Confederation. While there is some truth to that way of telling the story, the reality was actually more complicated. It is true that many citizens were
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by Jeff Polet Many of our cultural battles are intensified by our lack of imagination. We seldom display the sympathetic ability to put ourselves in our opponent’s shoes, meaning we typically don’t see them as moral actors but as immoral ones, forgetting that they don’t see themselves the same way. Surely there are persons whose
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