By James R. Harrigan At Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning show on July 5th, rock royalty showed up to pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at his retirement gig. Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian said it best: “We’re not here to say goodbye, we’re here to say thank you.” But as it turns out, they were …
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Juneteenth combines “June” and “Nineteenth,” commemorating June 19, 1865, when the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas, and General Gordon Granger announced to 250,000 enslaved men, women, and children that they were slaves no more.
Written by Senior Fellow James Harrigan. We celebrate a number of holidays every year in the United States, and while each has its partisans, there aren’t many that get to the heart of who we are as a people. Indeed, few could. We manage to find the worst in each other in just about every …
As human beings we have an extraordinary ability to think scientifically, to disassemble the world mathematically, to come out of ourselves and solve problems objectively. But we also have the concomitant subjective faculties of contemplation, appreciation, and reflection.
A space for the Beautiful.