THE UPSTATE AMERICAN

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On a flight toward failure, or another chance?
Our democracy is imperiled, but capitulation to decline is not inevitable
Nov 1 • 
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A sign for our times, and a call to action
What a birthday present from an artist friend said to me
Oct 25 • 
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How to save America's golden age
Athens and Rome once led the world, but their time passed. Has ours, too?
Oct 18 • 
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Farmers keep going. So do soldiers. And us?
Lessons of the fall in a time of national distress.
Oct 11 • 
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Lessons of Argyll in facing today's tyrant
An ancestor's steadfastness offers inspiration. Maybe it is even passed down to us.
Oct 4 • 
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Violence is not our inevitable future
The next step after Charlie Kirk's assassination may depend upon our expectations
Sep 13 • 
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Seven words for the resistance
Like learning to discern a wine's flavor, we must understand how we describe our objectives in order to confront Donald Trump's authoritarian rule
Sep 6 • 
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On county fairs and mistreated workers
Labor Day Weekend evokes both memories and thoughts of those mistreated by Trump's purge
Aug 30 • 
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THE UPSTATE AMERICAN
THE UPSTATE AMERICAN
Truth about character, politics and culture, emerging from hometowns away from the center of things.
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