Professor Joyce Vance Posed 5 Big Questions—Here Were My Answers
Turnabout is fair play.
When we launched The Big Picture earlier this month, I did a bit of promo with one of the sharpest minds of our times, Professor Joyce Vance, who has her own very popular substack, Civil Discourse.
I answered five questions she posed about democracy, the state of our country and how to keep your head in the fight. With her blessing, I’m republishing them here for paid subscribers of The Big Picture.
Five Questions with George Takei
I can’t think of a better person to start this series than actor and democracy advocate George Takei. Every single word he shares with us is pure gold!
Many of us feel like we’ve know him all our lives from Star Trek, but our topic today is George’s pro-democracy work and the reasons that motivate him to put so much energy into it at age 85. That’s persistence.
Joyce: Do you ever get discouraged about the state our country is in? What do you tell yourself when that happens?
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