Richard Brookhiser
It really goes back to college. When I was a freshman at Yale, in the spring of
1974, I took a course from Garry Wills. He was getting ready to do his big
Jefferson book, Inventing America. A lot of his lecture material ended
up in his book. He also brought Washington into it in a way that was very
compelling and attractive. Wills made me think about Washington. Then when I
was a senior I took another course from a fellow named Ronald Paulson, about
iconography in eighteenth-century art--Hogarth, Blake, James Gillray "My support for medical marijuana is not a contradiction of my principles, but an extension of them", Brookhiser told the House Judiciary Committee's
Subcommittee on Crime. "I am for law and order. But crime has to be
fought intelligently and the law disgraces itself when it harasses the
sick. I am for traditional virtues, but if carrying your beliefs to
unjust ends is not moral, it is philistine.
Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser
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