A posthumously published meditation on the social forces that shape opinion: Twain argues that our beliefs are largely formed by what feeds us, not what we have reasoned through.
A posthumously published meditation on the social forces that shape opinion: Twain argues that our beliefs are largely formed by what feeds us, not what we have reasoned through.
James argues that the martial virtues — discipline, solidarity, sacrifice — need not require actual war, and imagines a civilian service that could channel them toward peaceful ends.
A speech delivered to a nearly empty hall on the anniversary of a lynching — Chapman's moral reckoning with collective guilt is among the most extraordinary documents of the American conscience.
A train conversation with an anti-Semitic army colonel becomes a sharp examination of American liberalism — and McCarthy's own complicity in a society that produces such men.
Written in the margins of a newspaper from a Birmingham jail cell, King's letter to eight white clergymen is an argument for nonviolent direct action that has never been surpassed for moral clarity.
Written in the days after King's assassination, Hardwick's account of the Washington funeral procession meditates on martyrdom, grief, and what America does with its prophets.
Rich's meditation on the relationship between women and lying — not as moral failing but as learned survival — and what genuine honesty between women might require and make possible.
