M&A Ed

“Secular progressives who have a problem with the notion of a ‘Christian nation’ probably wouldn’t mind if our nation looked a little more like Christ.”[”
― Tom Krattenmaker, The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians

“The baby carriage is the sorriest joke in Europe today, for you never see a baby in one. . . . Instead they are filled with pots and pans and tools, and all the impediments of nomads.”
― David Nasaw, The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

“And suddenly she was at him, after him with her fists, her struggling weight; he squeezed her against him, regretfully conscious even now, as her pinned fists flailed his shoulders and her face crumpled into contorted weeping and the sharp smell of perfume was scalded from her, that the expression, of serene superiority, of a beautiful secret continually tasted, was still on his face.”
― John Updike, Couples

“Between 1941 and 1946, the federal government spent more than it had from 1789 to 1941.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States