We live in a

We live in a society that says You Gotta get yours and I’m not suggesting that you don’t handle your business but I want to show people… Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a … Read more

In the classics section,

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher … Read more

On May 15, 1957

On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. … It was at this time that the idea of the scientists’ petition against nuclear weapons tests was born. That evening we discussed it at length after dinner at my house and various ones of those present were scribbling … Read more