Portfolio Why America Needs to Weep for the Dead It’s so hard for Americans not to grasp for a silver lining during a tragedy. So engrained in us are Non-Essential Americans? If you were president, would it bother you if 2 million Americans died in the next few months from Covid-19? Will a ‘Foreign Virus’ Destroy Our Border Obsession ? The coils of razor-sharp concertina wire that drape the 18-foot-high border fence that runs like a scar through Nogales, Arizona, Why Assimilating White Southerners is a Lost Cause David NeSmith, a 61-year-old self-described “Southern boy” and volunteer docent at the Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site in Irwinville, Georgia, Does God Deserve Our Pity? I’m tempted to say that as a little boy I found God in the swirly patterns on my bedroom ceiling. Some Why Contra Mundum? I’ve long been moved by the brief passage in Evelyn Waugh's 1945 masterpiece "Brideshead Revisited" in which poor Sebastian, who is sliding « Previous 1 … 4 5 6
