“These are the times that try mens’ souls.” These famous words of Thomas Paine from his pamphlet “The Crisis”, written during the American Revolutionary War, stirred the spirit of all Americans of that difficult time. The words might as well have been uttered today. Paine lived and wrote amid two great revolutions: The American Revolution, [...]
Walt Whitman, the great bard of America, sang of simple men and women, and of a promise of America that went way beyond the economic dream that is now so associated with the American Dream. In “Democratic Vistas”, he wrote: “I hail with joy the oceanic, variegated, intense practical energy, the demand for facts, even [...]