Joseph Gerson’s Thanksgiving Day Sermon, Plymouth, Ma. 1984

Immigrant being processed on Ellis Island

Forty years ago, when the City Fathers and Mothers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, wanted to add their weight to nationwide demands for peace and disarmament, they invited Joseph Gerson to give the annual holiday sermon. He recently stumbled across the text and thought it as applicable today as it was 40 years ago. Joseph held his audience … Read more

The Would-Be Dictator’s Foreign and Military Commitments

The Would-Be Dictator’s Foreign and Military Commitments-image by David Anderson

In this period of tectonic geopolitical and political changes, we do well to heed Antonio Gramsci’s wisdom about interregnums: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”  Trump’s rule will certainly hasten the U.S.  decline and that of its empire with Beijing looking to be the greatest beneficiary.