The New Ideas Blog

We seem to have such a need for them that when there are none, we begin manufacturing heroes. I was thinking about this as the press and public went crazy over Barack Obama in the days leading up to his inauguration. He rode a train along the same route that Lincoln took to Washington, and he was sworn in on the same bible as Abraham Lincoln.

I had to look into the writings of Lincoln to see what this “hero” was really about. It is clear from what I found that (more…)