The Occupy Wall Street Protests

We Are Exceptional Not Because Of Who We Are But Because Of What We Do And How We Put The Ideals Of Human Dignity, Individual Freedom, And Liberty Under Law Into Action.

America Has Long Raised Political And Cultural Cognitive Dissonance To An Art Form. We Are Capable Of Living With Enormous Inequality And Injustice While Convincing Ourselves That We Are In Fact Moving Toward What Churchill Called The "broad, Sun-lit Uplands."

As A Southerner Born After The Epic Events Of The Civil Rights Movement, I've Always Wondered How On Earth People Of Good Will Could Have Conceivably Lived With Jim Crow - With The Daily Degradations, The Lynchings In Plain Sight, And, As The Movement Gathered Force, With The Fire Hoses And The Police Dogs And The Billy Clubs.

The More We Can Do To Support And Promulgate The Intellectual Traditions Of The Abrahamic Faiths - Of Judaism, Christianity, And Islam - The Better Armed We Will Be To Fight Fundamentalism.

In Rich And Captivating Prose, Jessica Dulong Kindly Invites The Rest Of Us On The Journey Of Her Lifetime: From A Dot-com Job To The Fabled Waters Of The Hudson River, Where She Became A Fireboat Engineer. This Is An Unusual And Fascinating Book.