Despite all the damage that [Trump] has done, much is going right in the world. Global prosperity, health and education have advanced by huge leaps in the past few decades […]
Healthy democracy
Appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren’t for those who don’t look like us […]
Give me your tired
Only the last few lines are normally quoted. Here is the whole sonnet. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here […]
Tolerance
Literature encourages tolerance — bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they’re so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can’t see them also as […]
Americans and Canadians
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States. John Bartlet Brebner, Canadian historian (1895 – 1957)
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