Archives for August 17, 2021

From 2005:

Ever since I was old enough to understand what it meant, seeing the Confederate battle flag on display has made me squirm—and the fact that it continues to fly over state houses in the Deep South makes me genuinely angry. That said, I’m also not fond of “debates” driven by self-righteousness, of which vast amounts have been evident on both sides of this particular fence. Nor do I usually think it wise to take action on anything in the heat of the moment, which is, needless to say, what’s happening right now.

But it’s also true that America is a country in which things tend to get done either in the midst of a crisis or (more often) not at all….

Read the whole thing here.

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

Dwight Eisenhower, first inaugural address