Wally Bock on Willie Mays and "The Catch."
Friday, March 04, 2022
Thursday, March 03, 2022
Excerpt
The fifteen men included ten university graduates, nine of them qualified lawyers, eight of whom had a doctorate. The minutes suggest that they discussed these matters in a purposeful, business-like, and informed manner in comfortable surroundings and in a positively idyllic setting. While expressing a variety of different views on matters of detail, not a single one of them raised concerns about the project as a whole, namely the murder of 11 million Jews.
From Wannsee: The Road to The Final Solution by Peter Longerich
Travel Tip
Train all day. Great group with great questions. The drive is a bit wearing but I found the above to be great company.
Wednesday, March 02, 2022
First Paragraph
There was a time when the Constitution was not yet a historical document. There was a time before it had been subjected to the interpretation and reinterpretation of the Supreme Court over the course of hundreds of cases. There was a time when it looked doubtful that the people of the thirteen independent states would agree to a plan for a new federal government that had been produced in secrecy and without legal authorization.
- From The Accessible Federalist: A Modern English Translation of 16 Key Federalist Papers by S. Adam Seagrave
Tuesday, March 01, 2022
First Paragraph
America's Founding Fathers were never quite sure that democracy would work, especially during their revolution. The British, for their part, were absolutely convinced that it wouldn't: their very Englishness had instilled in them a heightened sense of the rightness and superiority of their monarchical ways, and had provoked a fear and hatred of such outlandish notions as "democracy" and "republics."
- From The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America by Winston Groom
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