Tag: Common Sense

Irma and Harvey came at two and a half minutes to midnight.

September 11, 2017

On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy spoke at Rice University in Houston. He said that the people there were gathered “at an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance,” and by the end of the decade, we would land a man on … More Irma and Harvey came at two and a half minutes to midnight.

Independence, Interdependence, and Common Sense.

July 4, 2016

Happy Independence Day! Today I honored the birth of our nation by reading Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Reading it has brought me to reflect on some of its wisest passages. Paine’s arguments apply to today’s local, national, and international issues as well as they did in 1776. He calls out the problem of government and … More Independence, Interdependence, and Common Sense.