No one was really sure how long the canvas had sat unobserved. Some believed it had always been there.  Others thought it was recently placed in the open. And there were those who’d concluded it had never existed in the first place. “It’s made up,” they’d argued.    It was a white canvas without any defining […]

I’ve always been an uneasy patriot. The country was founded with all its barefaced contradictions written into its very declaration of independence and constitution. It’s hard not to stifle a smirk when reading “All men are created equal,” knowing it was written and nobly approved by…