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Finding American Democracy through Humanism and Radical Liberalism

August 17, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

A shorter version of what’s written below was published on Friday, August 14 in The New York Times, as a comment to This is Where I Stand, the opinion column from David Brooks: Thanks to President Barack Obama and two recent columns in The New York Times, I’m wondering if we aren’t finding (at last) a framework for how we …

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Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: Brooks (David), Cohen (Roger), Harris (Kamala), Obama (Barack)

Senator John McCain’s Memorial Service

September 3, 2018 By Guy St. Clair

Labor Day, 2018. In America, we are celebrating one of our national holidays today. With Labor Day, the attention often focuses more on the “holiday” side of the observance, because the day also marks the unofficial end of summer. Despite that, our Labor Day does have a serious purpose, as it was established as a …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History Tagged With: Bush (George W.), Marshall (George C.), Marshall Plan, McCain (John), Obama (Barack)

Midsummer’s Day Thoughts

June 21, 2018 By Guy St. Clair

It’s Midsummer’s Day today, and as I prepare to send this post out (hopefully before Midsummer’s Day turns into a dreamy midsummer’s night), I have to confess that I was shocked to see that my last post was on Easter, some three months ago. My apologies. I’m consistently thinking about how lucky I am. Not …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: art nouveau, Atlantic Charter, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Kurtz-Phelan (Daniel), Marshall (George C.), Marshall Plan, Marshall Plan (China), Midsummer's Day, Obama (Barack), Rhodes (Ben), Truman (Harry S.), Venice, Venice (Lido)

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