Quotes of the week: “In a world where freedom, not tyranny, is on the march, the cynical calculus of pure power politics simply does not compute.” – President Bill Clinton, 1992 “It is clear, absolutely clear … that this is…
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” – Richard Powers, The Overstory “Life has a way of talking to the future. It’s called memory.” –…
Quotes of the week: “Most of what we call civilization depends on reciprocal vulnerability.” – Thomas C. Schelling, “What Went Wrong with Arms Control?” “With nuclear weapons available, the restraint of violence cannot await the outcome of a contest of…
Verse of the week: “Spell the spiel of cause and effect,/ Ride the long rail of fact after fact;/ What curled the plume in the drake’s tail/ And put the white ring round his neck?” — Wendell Berry, “For the…
Quotes of the week: “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” — George Washington Carver “The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.” — Sun Tzu The June 16th meeting between Presidents Joe Biden…
Quote of the week: “Virtue signaling is for political show horses, but unbecoming for America.”—John Bolton Steve Liewer of the Omaha World-Herald has been our eyes and ears on the successes, trials, and tribulations of the Open Skies Treaty. I…
Quote of the week: “You’ve got to dream a little bit if you’re going to get somewhere.” – George P. Shultz Note to readers: Ward Wilson and David Barash have written with depth and feeling about abolition and nuclear deterrence.…
Lyrics of the week: “I must’ve been through about a million girlsI’d love ’em and I’d leave ’em aloneI didn’t care how much they cried no sirTheir tears left me cold as a stone. But then I fooled around and…
Quotes of the week: “He just beat the hell out of me.” – John F. Kennedy after his summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna “It was as if you were sitting in an iron barrel that was being beaten…
Quotes of the week: “Dignity is not negotiable.” “In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of…
