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1969: The Good, the Bad, the Politics, the Music, Two Miracles and a Principled Stand
In 1969 — fifty years ago, today — I was driving a 1965 blue Mustang while attending my second year of college as turmoil swirled in the country. While I didn’t know it at the time, the country was more divided then at any time since the Civil War. The Good: miniskirts… lots of them. The Bad: the Manson family....
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Removed
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Clarence Darrow’s Warning to a Tired Democracy
I first read Clarence Darrow for an American Jurisprudence class in college and have returned to his work several times since. He is widely regarded...
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