Sublime

At the close of Russell’s 1938 speech against lynching legislation, Borah of Idaho walked over to him and congratulated him—and then took the floor himself to echo Russell’s argument that the bill was a violation of states’ rights. (Whereupon Russell rose in his turn to say, “The people of the South will ever revere the name of William E. Borah.”)

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At first, the veil under which Russell’s feelings had been cloaked fell away only in private. There had always been scattered hints in private; years before, while he was professing on the Senate floor that “I have no greater rights because I am a white man,” he had written in a letter marked “confidential”: “Any southern white man worth a pinch of

One way that Greitens does this is with a steady stream of “yes” when he’s taking in different points of view, said Abrams, which expresses an “encouragement to the person he’s speaking with that is a natural by-product of being someone who’s not just inquisitive and not just incredibly smart, but also so deeply optimistic.” This optimism springs f