Tag: Cherry tree

• If We’re Honest With Ourselves, We Suck At Being Honest With Ourselves

  Americans love honesty. In the abstract, anyway. Young George Washington could not tell a lie about cutting down his father’s favorite cherry tree (“the story first appeared in an 1806 autobiography of Washington, whose writer admitted that he was just trying to show how our most beloved president’s “unparalleled rise and elevation were due to…

  A L Katz

  October 29, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Culture, False Patriotism, Magical Thinking, Racism, Religion, Sexual Assault Survival, Slavery, The Nature of Evil

  All Men Are Created Equal, Cherry tree, Dana Carvey, Deism, E Pluribus Unum, Honest Abe, Honesty, Slavery, Stolen Labor