Friends, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but our country seems a bit nuts right now.

A pandemic, the assault on our Capitol, the near overturning of a lawful election, the possibility of real war, and an ongoing war against pretend enemies domestically.

One thing that is really encouraging to me is to study our history and see how hope has pulled us through before. Right now I’m reading Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America. In it, Meacham describes a number of seemingly unending, impossible situations for our country and how we’ve pulled through before…

Recently I listened to a great audio edition of the book Animal Farm with my seventh grader—I hadn’t read it since middle school myself. One of the things I was struck by were the similarities between the book’s Battle of the Cowshed and the Capitol Attacks on January 6, 2021. In particular, I was impacted by the way the post-event narrative is driven by similar mouthpieces of misinformation: Squealer the pig, in the case of Animal Farm, and non-fiction equivalents like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Ingraham, Paul Gosar and Andrew Clyde…

Tomorrow, September 18, 2021, supporters of President Trump will descend on our Nation’s capital for the “Justice for J6” rally.
As journalist Jonathan Chait put it, the horrifying events of January 6, 2021 have evolved “from a black mark that threatened to expunge [President Trump] from Republican politics, to a regrettable episode that his allies preferred to leave behind, to a glorious uprising behind which he could rally his adherents”…