The Soul of a Nation

Steve Russell
5 min readMar 11, 2021
Dia de los Muertos photo by Eduardo Dorantes on Unsplash

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. asked us to cast a vote for him rather than Donald John Trump because, he said, the soul of America is at stake.

That’s a scary argument on many levels, not the least of which is the implied threat to suck us back before the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, when rulers were thought to be anointed by God. Scary or…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)