censorship

protest

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

historian

historian of the modern age

university teacher

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Letters

is always self-sabotaging, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. - Henry Steele Commager

is a living tradition stultified when we celebrate the rebels of the past while silencing the rebels of the present.

*Unsentimental, unheroic, some will say unchristian, as it may sound, our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Henry Steele CommagerThinkers

Henry Steele Commager