All posts filed under: Monday Musings

Citizenship (Revisited)

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An old piece that is a reminder to “Love the neighbor you like and the neighbor you don’t like.”

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My chat with Ann de Forest―editor of “Ways of Walking”―celebrating movement at a human pace.

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Allen Guelzo’s intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy.

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In the third of the Maigret series, Georges Simenon writes of a crime where everything seems false.

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Ways to get closer to books.

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America is an idea founded on ideals of equality and freedom. Democracy always requires our work.

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In 2025 we were certainly “off to great places.” Here’s a recap, with a hat tip to a children’s classic.

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A beautiful novel reminds us that “Words, especially those written, are immortal.”

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Presenting the top MTC posts for 2025, based on reader views.

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Seeing myself in the books I chose to read in 2025.