The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America’s wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country. Jon Meacham Read Quote
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting – not well; I am a terrible shot – quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River. Jon Meacham Read Quote
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. Jon Meacham Read Quote
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. Jon Meacham Read Quote
The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. Jon Meacham Read Quote
In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one’s enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all. Jon Meacham Read Quote
Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class. Jon Meacham Read Quote
The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama’s win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was. Jon Meacham Read Quote
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life. Jon Meacham Read Quote
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. Jon Meacham Read Quote
