Memoirous

When I was a kid—this memory is decidedly before entering high school—at one of my favorite haunts, the book store, I picked up for half-price a coffee table book titled: Fads, Follies, and Delusions of the American People by Paul Sann (1967). The chapters explored everything from the hula hoop to Father Divine in Harlem to the rise of Mussolini. You see I was fascinated by how something becomes a thing and then a few years later is nothing. At the time I was also engrossed in reading the Bible cover to cover. There was something very Ecclesiastes about popularity—here today, gone tomorrow, or to borrow the language: “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Isaiah 40:8. Even then, I was looking for the key to life. I spent countless hours trying to figure out how a whole nation, Germany, could fall into the hands of the devil Hitler and exterminate over 6 million Jews. It was a lot for a kid to think about. Every day now in the MAGA univer...