when you mention waldo frank, who called the proam the cod, the nra, as part of the new deal, part of roosevelt's program, he nted to call it fascism okay. so this wasn't the national rifle? no, not the necesrily national national recovy. yeah. younow, i think one of the features of liberalism and how it changes to do with its perspective on the state and whether governments at national or local levels are seen as basically supporting the desires of various communities or standing opposed. i mean, you know, linda, a great book on the in the 1920s. you talk a right wing movement. you it was the biggest political movement that period may be one of the biggest right wing movements ever in american history. stronger the south than in the south, motivated by anti-catholic ism and anti-semitism as well as anti-racism that managed to get into power at know from the ground all way up to the supreme court and and think thaone of the things you know, in the 1920s, i think there was a sense that the state, as it was, was in the service of people who, you know, concerned about a of the changes ta

it wisdom that, to be frank, was not well received when i was a freshman use quite frankly, i was too young to really appreciate what writers like henry david thoreau or ralph waldoor emily dickinson had to tell me. so in reconnecting with that as an older■s person, i realized tt a lot of the literature really resonates. as you add more birthdays, as i have and as everybody adds, that's whaty reignited my desire to to to really revisit these classics and to engage with them as a source of instruction in my daily life. and in your column, you quote margaret aire burns as saying the trouble with education is that we always read everything thing when we are too young know what it means. and the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to reread it later. i mean, when i was a college was listening to henry david thoreau talk about the advantages of having very few possessions. it really fell on deaf ears with me because i didn't have anything to speak of. i was a poor college student. i have a very old jalopy of a car that i used to get back and forth to class and my aspirations at that time were to acquire more stuff like a lot of young people. and so thoreau