JON MEACHAM
Jon Meacham, the eminent presidential historian, tweeted the following in light of President Trump’s continuing push for his totemic monument to himself; i.e. The Wall:
America should “build a wall of steel, a wall as high as Heaven” against the flow of immigrants.–Georgia Gov. Clifford Walker, at a 1924 convention of the Ku Klux Klan, then a powerful force at a time of strain for the white working class. #PastIsPrologue
RUSTY INMAN
The past is never past. We, each of us, carry both its brighter and darker angels within us, bringing them and their formative power into the present and bearing them into the future. Only a life of committed and never-ending self-examination, self-awareness and self-knowledge—undertaken at both the individual and corporate levels—can secure either the present or the future for those brighter angels and against those darker angels.