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What Dickens Meant Us to Remember
Every December, I look forward to reading and watching Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. While there are countless versions of the classic, I always return to the film with Reginald Owen as Scrooge, not only because Owen embodies the part, but also because it features Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit. A brilliant character actor with a gift for sincerity, Lockhart brings...
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December 11, 2025
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November 4, 2026
On March 4, 1865, a tall, tired man stood before a crowd gathered at the United States Capitol to deliver what would become one of...
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I’ve spent much of my life thinking and writing about ethics. About honesty. About responsibility. About integrity—not simply when doing the right thing is easy,...
All The President’s Targets
It’s difficult to write about honesty, responsibility, and integrity when our minds are consumed daily by a president who demonstrates zero respect for those values...
Integrity Doesn’t Require a Megaphone
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WHOSE PURPOSE DOES THIS SERVE?
“He’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of murdering...
Choreographer of Disaster
Nowhere is there a greater metaphor for Donald Trump’s policies, priorities, and unfulfilled ego than the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington’s cultural cathedral...