The Spanish-American War Memorial in a carelessly tended small park in Newport, Rhode Island, bears these words: ‘Dedicated to the memory of the citizens of Newport who served…
Seventy-five years after the Civil War began, Sinclair Lewis, America’s first Nobel laureate for literature, feared another national cataclysm: a Fascist takeover. In the course of It Can’t Happen Here…
In high school, we went to Evening Prayer six nights a week. The choir master had a knack for choosing hymns – we sang two or three each night –…