by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. This is an appreciation of a man who walked the corridors of power, specifically the ornate corridors of Massachusetts’ grandiose State House designed to awe by Charles Bulfinch in 1787. He was crucial to the way our demos works… yet he never presented himself to the voters as …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In 1956 Charles Dumont composed and Michel Vaucaire wrote the lyrics to a song titled “Non, je ne regrette rien” (“No, I don’t regret anything.”) It was turned in 1960 into an anthem of resolution and defiance by Edith Piaf, one of the greatest singers of all time. …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. You’re beautiful. You’re young. You’ve got hormones to die for… and you know how to move a puck, no one better… one with the swiftly moving hard disk…. skating like God Himself… dazzling… thrilling… the crowd on its feet for you, always on its feet for you. And …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. I decided to walk to the Farmer’s Market yesterday; usually I ask Mister Joseph to drive me, the better to bring home the excessive armloads of produce I need to feel I have enough. But the weather, on the cusp between a summer exiting and a fall arriving, …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. To be honest with you, I hated working for people. I hated taking orders. I hated doing the things my bosses wanted me to… rather than the things I wanted to do. And as for the word “boss” it made me sick. So, I had only these choices: …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Harvard University, my alma mater, doesn’t inaugurate presidents like other, lesser institutions of exalted learning. By no means. They consecrate and install latter-day deities, mere administrators no longer, but the dynamos that rule from Harvard Yard the Great Republic and every other nation and significant institution everywhere on …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In this punk economy, the nation’s 1,000,000 charities, non-profit organizations and eleemosynary institutions are hard pressed to do all that must be done for the good of so many. To achieve their admirable goals, they need volunteers… and lots of them. But volunteers who don’t know how …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. When the news flashed from Benghazi that His Excellency J. Christopher “Chris” Stevens along with three members of his staff had been killed, I wept. For Chris Stevens, for his family, for the people of Libya whom he had served so well and for the Great Republic itself, …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Surely there is an error someplace, something God Himself forgot to mention, namely that Mouseketeers, kids we knew better than our neighbors, were not supposed to get old, face the cares and crises of the rest of us, and, this cannot be happening, even die. How could this …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Can you remember when you were just 20 and life was an unburdened joy, even the most trivial things touched by a kind of magic, a certain thrilling madness? I remember… … and I remember, too, riding my bike around the student city and pristine beaches of Goleta, California in the …