The smiling lady in the Ancestry ad proudly proclaims, “my ancestors were resilient.” “Resilience” as defined by Meririam-Webster: “tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” Resilience is not a term I’d use to describe the immigrants I’ve interpretted and translated for. “Desperate” would be more applicable — and in that desperation […]
The 17th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes is now widely regarded as one of a handful of truly great political philosophers, whose masterwork Leviathan rivals in significance the political writings of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Voltaire and Rawls. To which I would add the brilliant young political polymath James Madison. If Hobbes were
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The Bill of Obligations: The 10 Habits of Good Citizens, by Richard Haass, longtime diplomat and policy maker for four presidents.
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