Plus:His Great-Great-Grandmother Was a Slave. He Sees Forgiveness as Path Forward.
March 14 2022
Good morning from Washington, where progressive elites seem ready to end America’s rep for rugged individualism. This ruling class seeks to manage all our cares, Richard Reinsch writes. What does forgiveness look like for the sins of America’s past? Find out from an admirer of Frederick Douglass in a video report from our Virginia Allen. In a special podcast episode, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts examines the breakdown in law and order with reporter Julio Rosas. Plus: Peter Brookes on biological labs in Ukraine; Jim Phillips on what makes the energy crisis worse; and your letters on the Supreme Court vacancy. On this date in 1958, the Recording Industry Association of America awards its first Gold Record to crooner Perry Como for selling over 500,000 copies of his hit “Catch A Falling Star.”
The ruling class diagnoses and prescribes cures for our neuroses and instills in us a resigned belief that we really aren’t free to govern our lives without its constant attention.
Dean Nelson says he didn’t hear his parents or grandparents “ever say a negative word about a white person, despite the fact that my parents went to a segregated high school.”
The Biden administration’s cold shoulder encouraged the Saudis and Emiratis to hedge their bets on U.S. security guarantees by trying to improve their relations with Russia, China, and even Iran.