A small architectural itch on the White House campus is scratching at a much bigger American question: who gets liberty, who gets God, and who gets the country.
Thank you for this. At 91, couldn’t stop reading. “Enlightenment” means too little to too many. Having lived in France, walked the ramparts of Langres in homage to Diderot, been to Monticello, and being involved in WWII and politics from 1956, I was thrilled at your “columns” approach. Again, thank you.
Sorry I can’t afford a subscription. Writer of GOTV postcards, the cost of stamps in the uncertainty of the moment leaves me with only small contributions to the candidates who have no middle class left to support them and a hope to be able to afford decent food.
Please Virginia don’t apologize, really. If you were the only one reading this for free it would still be worth me doing, I mean that. The way you caught the Enlightenment thread and brought Langres, Diderot, Monticello, all that lived memory to it...that is the kind of thing money can’t buy, and it meant a lot to me, more than a lot actually.
And honestly, part of my strategy is exactly this, I try to sort out the people who do have the means to pay, so this work can stay open to people who don’t. I work for the public full time, not just the comfortable slice of it. So no, don’t carry that apology around with you. Keep writing those postcards, keep reading, and thank you for seeing what I was trying to do here.
Our White House, meaning The People’s White House, looks beautiful with its perfectly suited Ionic columns. Corinthian columns would look out of place, but the point is that it is not his property to change. It was perfectly beautiful before severe alterations, destruction, and more changes took place since he moved in. It is the job of Congress or a particular committee to protect our White House, and they need to act promptly and firmly. If he wants Corinthian columns, they can go on some property he owns, not on what our country owns.
This temporary home, permanently belonging to us, the people of the United States, is only a temporary residence, which we allow a current president to live in, only during the Constitutionally defined term. The historic committee, by whatever proper name it has, must insist that no vhdnges be made by a president such as he is trying to do. His idea is to go what he wants, no matter what. A renter taking such liberty would and should be evicted, it seems.
Thank you for this. At 91, couldn’t stop reading. “Enlightenment” means too little to too many. Having lived in France, walked the ramparts of Langres in homage to Diderot, been to Monticello, and being involved in WWII and politics from 1956, I was thrilled at your “columns” approach. Again, thank you.
Sorry I can’t afford a subscription. Writer of GOTV postcards, the cost of stamps in the uncertainty of the moment leaves me with only small contributions to the candidates who have no middle class left to support them and a hope to be able to afford decent food.
Please Virginia don’t apologize, really. If you were the only one reading this for free it would still be worth me doing, I mean that. The way you caught the Enlightenment thread and brought Langres, Diderot, Monticello, all that lived memory to it...that is the kind of thing money can’t buy, and it meant a lot to me, more than a lot actually.
And honestly, part of my strategy is exactly this, I try to sort out the people who do have the means to pay, so this work can stay open to people who don’t. I work for the public full time, not just the comfortable slice of it. So no, don’t carry that apology around with you. Keep writing those postcards, keep reading, and thank you for seeing what I was trying to do here.
Your columns approach is invaluable as is your understanding of the Enlightenment. Thank you for trying to communicate to us who we need to be.
Our White House, meaning The People’s White House, looks beautiful with its perfectly suited Ionic columns. Corinthian columns would look out of place, but the point is that it is not his property to change. It was perfectly beautiful before severe alterations, destruction, and more changes took place since he moved in. It is the job of Congress or a particular committee to protect our White House, and they need to act promptly and firmly. If he wants Corinthian columns, they can go on some property he owns, not on what our country owns.
This temporary home, permanently belonging to us, the people of the United States, is only a temporary residence, which we allow a current president to live in, only during the Constitutionally defined term. The historic committee, by whatever proper name it has, must insist that no vhdnges be made by a president such as he is trying to do. His idea is to go what he wants, no matter what. A renter taking such liberty would and should be evicted, it seems.