There were reports this week that, amid everything else happening in the world, the administration is once again examining the Smithsonian—this time extending its attention beyond the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Wonderful piece! And so seemingly self-evident yet almost shockingly novel. I can't recall having read such a carefully fleshed-out explication of what is dismayingly routinely dismissed as "the bureaucracy" in I don't know when. My own father was just such a civil servant (!) back in the Eisenhower/McCarthy/J. Edgar Hoover and, oh yes, Roy Cohn daze. 'Tweren't easy as I recall, child though I then was. And the Powers that Be now seem hell bent on establishing a new low. Heaven help us. Meanwhile, thanks yet again for your thoughtfulness and insight. They're a balm, they are. A positive balm.
Wonderful piece! And so seemingly self-evident yet almost shockingly novel. I can't recall having read such a carefully fleshed-out explication of what is dismayingly routinely dismissed as "the bureaucracy" in I don't know when. My own father was just such a civil servant (!) back in the Eisenhower/McCarthy/J. Edgar Hoover and, oh yes, Roy Cohn daze. 'Tweren't easy as I recall, child though I then was. And the Powers that Be now seem hell bent on establishing a new low. Heaven help us. Meanwhile, thanks yet again for your thoughtfulness and insight. They're a balm, they are. A positive balm.
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