In case you have not heard, Donald Trump’s federal budget proposal, released today, eliminates funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities. This morning I wrote an extended piece on this development. We are currently shopping it around.
I have also been tweeting (follow along @johnfea1) older pieces from The Way of Improvement Leads Home in which I or others have defended the humanities.
In the meantime, here is another reason why the NEH might be useful. Read this recent tweet from our Vice President:
We may be separated by an ocean, but the American people have always been bound by kinship to the Irish people.
— Vice President Pence (@VP) March 16, 2017
I can’t imagine that mid-19th century Irish immigrants felt this deep sense of kinship.
This post calls to mind what my Dad once told me when he reported to sign up for the ‘peacetime’ draft in 1940….he was greeted with ‘the Irish and Dutch ain’t worth very much!”
Sent from my iPad, Grampy E,
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