1940s dress – Insight/Outfit of the Day

Reductive thinking is another name for the inescapable fact of our utter dependency.

As per usual, I accumulate small actions aimed toward a hoped-for restoration. Restoration of rivers, our Union, our true independence. In a public comment direct toward EPA head Andrew Wheeler: The intended beneficiaries of our Constitutional responsibility are clearly stated to include “our Posterity.” This means all future generations must be taken into account as…

Patriotism

For a person interested in gaining a measure of the wisdom in the world, it seems a natural thing to start with a close reckoning of familiar details and people. This tendency to contemplate the familiar in part explains the attention I paid as a scholar to Native and African-American experiences in the Early American…