As we look around this country, we need to ask what we’ve lost

By: Richard Taylor

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: August 4, 2026

Words: 465

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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Character. The word seems antique in these rancorous times, as rare as truth. As rare as objectivity and nuance in our political discourse. I recently came across Thomas Jefferson’s reminiscence of his fellow Virginian and nation-builder, George Washington:

“I think I knew General Washington intimately and thoroughly; and were I called on to delineate his character, it would be in terms like these.

His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first …

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