Tag: Lies

Courage (Or Not) In Politics

H. Scott DaltonNo Comments

We’ve just about managed to remove courage from American politics entirely. I won’t claim there was ever a “golden age” of politics, in the U.S. or anywhere else–it’s always been a dirty, messy business, in which men and women of varying shades of integrity debate in public and make deals in private. It’s always been […]

Courage to Be Yourself

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This article on the Smithsonian web site makes me think about courage. According to a new book by Richard A. Serrano, at least some of the men who claimed in the 1950s to be veterans of the Civil War…weren’t. Some of them were children, too young to go to war, when the shooting stopped. Others […]