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Jun201023

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How many members of Congress have read Profiles in Courage?

This is an unfortunately timeless paragraph from John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning Profiles in Courage: “Today the challenge of political courage looms larger than ever before. For our everyday life is becoming so saturated with the tremendous power of mass communications that any unpopular or unorthodox course arouses a storm of protests such as [...]

Jun201009

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Do Different Generational Perspectives on Patriotism and War Line Up?

I’m curious about how well Remarque’s perspective in All Quiet on the Western Front resonates with today’s soldiers as they think about the teachers, mentors, and media that encourage us to fight. Seems like a timeless observation: “While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty [...]