In some ways nothing has changed. The overriding political issue of our time, as it was in the times of the French and Russian revolutions, is that the few have a lot, and the many a little. (And it’s probably even more true in Russia today.) We know that only when these two camps seem [...]
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March 8, 2009Thornton Wilder’s “New Hampshire Boys”
March 8, 2009Today in the New York times Frank Rich tells us that it’s impossible not to be moved by that Act III passage in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town where the Stage Manager comes upon the graves of Civil War veterans in the town cemetery and says: “New Hampshire boys had a notion that the Union ought [...]
