Plus: Jill Biden Got a Raise. Here’s What She’s Earning for Teaching at a Community College.
November 24 2022
Happy Thanksgiving from Washington, where first lady Jill Biden probably is grateful for the recent raise that keeps her income well above that of most Americans as inflation rages. Fred Lucas reports. We’ve also got reflections on Thanksgiving from Rachel Alexander, John Stossel, and Jarrett Stepman. On the podcast, Virginia Allen finds out how the woman who originally championed the holiday envisioned Americans’ observation of Thanksgiving. On this date in 1849, John Froelich, who would invent the first internal-combustion tractor some 40 years later, is born in Iowa. Enjoy your holiday weekend!
From the Pilgrims’ feast to 20th-century Thanksgiving Day parades, our tradition has been marked by humble contemplation of unearned grace and celebration of all we’ve been given.
The video shown at Whitman High was narrated by activist and former U.N. delegate Larissa FastHorse, whose Thanksgiving message was that “we are all complicit in standing on stolen land.”
Thanksgiving is in the beginning stages of receiving the Columbus Day treatment. We can’t underestimate the threat of a few militant voices amplified by America’s culture-shaping institutions.