The Pragmatist Pamphlets

As I delve more and more into history, I am continuously astonished (I probably shouldn't be by now, haha) by the realization that history may not exactly REPEAT itself but, it sure does RHYME. After all, where else can a nation look to for guidance but in its own memorable history or other nations' histories, for that matter, in attempt to learn from or avoid making the same mistakes in future? Is that not the whole idea? Our duty to create a better future? How will posterity judge us? If history is a nation's memory, then America has national Alzheimer's.  Pulitzer Prize winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. wrote in an op-ed titled "Folly's Antidote" (The New York Times, January 1, 2007):  History is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost not knowing where they have been and where they are going, so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its presen

As so stated in Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Paper No. 1 , it is my aim,"...fellow citizens, to put you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your decision in a matter of the utmost moment to your welfare, by any impressions, other than those which may result from the evidence of truth...I affect not reserves, which I do not feel. I will not amuse you with an appearance of deliberation, when I have decided. I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded. The consciousness of good intentions disdains ambiguity...My motives must remain in the depository of my own breast: my arguments will be open to all, and may be judged of by all. They shall at least be offered in a spirit, which will not disgrace the cause of truth." I propose in a series of pamphlets, discussions over an array of topics that stem from the subjects that seem to be, more so now than before, widely r