Citizenship

I haven’t listened to Biden’s inauguration address yet, although I’ve heard good things. It got me thinking about other memorable addresses by presidents. I don’t know how heralded Washington’s Farewell Address is by the presidential-address-ranking-community, but the allusions in Hamilton have certainly hooked me into wanting to explore it. Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors....

To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter – Vladimir Bukovsky’s autobiography about his life in the Soviet Union. A little longer than I might otherwise have liked, but the nuggets of wisdom in his life’s story and the reality of what he went through made it worth it for me. His dealings with a government that values ideology above all else were particularly eye-opening. Here he is on the essence of the struggle in the Soviet Union....