Wendy McElroy’s latest. A good read for Independence Day. Spread it around.
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(I’m still deadlining. Two articles down, one to go. Plus Life. More soon.)
Wendy McElroy’s latest. A good read for Independence Day. Spread it around.
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(I’m still deadlining. Two articles down, one to go. Plus Life. More soon.)
A great article. Thanks for the link.
Timely. Thanks.
Maggie McNeill also has a thoughtful esssay on “Independence Day.”
http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/the-spirit-of-76/
“…the 4th of July is now a memorial rather than a celebration, and the Spirit of ‘76 is nothing but a ghost.”
Thanks to Wendy and Maggie.
Great article by Wendy. I have Havel’s book but I bogged down reading it. But he’s right about his example, the greengrocer. I wrote something along the same lines although it doesn’t get to the bottom of things like Havel does:
http://strike-the-root.com/compromise
Wendy’s great!