‘We are basket cases of ingratitude, so many of us,” National Review magazine founder William F. Buckley remarked in 1988 in a speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
It’s easy for the holidays at year’s end to become routine — even stressful — but we really must insist upon reflection. Every time I’ve walked past a torn-down Israeli-hostage sign on a New York City streetlamp this fall, I’ve thought about how we don’t learn the lessons of history and don’t remember what is most important. We’re having the same miserable old debates and might be on track to elect the same old (and we can emphasize that) for president, but what we really need to do is get ourselves undistracted from our phones and our ideological silos and appreciate that we have things in common and worth fighting for.
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