After the 2016 election, I gave George Orwell a shot. I had read 1984 in college for my own enjoyment during the Bush administration to feel like a good liberal. But I did not remember too much about it. But when I tried to read it in early 2017, I could not get past the …
Month: July 2019
“Inking”by daimoneklund is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Justice Douglas starts An Almanac of Liberty where our nation began – the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The process of adoption began on April 12, 1776 when North Carolina instructed its delegates to the Continental Congress to obtain independence. A committee was eventually created to …
Justice Douglas focused on the question of faith for July 2. In An Almanac of Liberty, he wrote: The question of faith goes to the very heart of the problem of survival. Faith in men of opposing political creeds — faith in people who worship God from a temple too strange for us to call …