“THE rule of a tyrant aims not at the good of a community, but at the private advancement of the ruler …. who encourages dissensions and sedition in the nation subject to him in order to maintain his own control with more safety. For this is tyranny, since it aims at promoting the interests of the ruling power to the detriment of the nation.”

— St. Thomas Aquinas

A YOUNG WOMAN goes to her local “urgent care” center suffering from symptoms of the flu: fever, aches, congestion.

She is “tested” for Covid-19. The test results are negative.

But the doctor tells her — this is a true story — that she must have Covid-19: “It couldn’t be anything else.”

This makes me wonder. Is it possible there is only one disease? Maybe every person who has ever died has died of Covid-19.

St. Bernadette in 1925, 46 years after her death

“WHAT impressed you on seeing her was an air of candor, innocence, modesty and reserve that completely enveloped her and radiated from her through her eyes, her attitude and her bearing.”

— Quoted in St. Bernadette Soubirous: 1844-1879 by Abbé François Trochu

I cannot endorse all the content at Vaccine Impact, but here is an excellent piece by Brian Shilhavey on how illness is defined:

Today, modern Western culture has completely changed the concept of “sickness” to deal only with the physical nature of man, with the absence of any concept of “sin” or morality.

As I wrote in my recent article, What is Life?, this can be traced historically to the period in Europe during the late 1700s and early 1800s known as “the Great Awakening” or the period of “Enlightenment,” where academic thought was being influenced by men such as Karl Marx (communism), Karl Ritter (Aryan race), and Charles Darwin (evolution), where the higher forms of human life, ζωή (zóé) which includes “eternal life (spiritual)”, and ψυχή (psuché) which can be translated as “soul,” where excluded in favor of the lower, only physical part of human life, βίος (bios), which gave us Darwinian biology, and the theory of “evolution” of the human race apart from God. Read More »

[Reposted and revised.]

TODAY is the anniversary of the day in 1858 that a 14-year-old peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, had the first of numerous visions in a grotto in Lourdes, France in the Pyrenees mountains. A beautiful young woman appeared to her. “Her face was oval in shape, and ‘of an incomparable grace,’ her yes were blue, her voice ‘Oh, so sweet!'”

Bernadette’s recollection are described in the book by Abbe Francois Trochu, Saint Bernadette Soubirous, first published in France in 1954:

“I had hardly begun to take off my stocking when I heard the sound of wind, as in a storm. I turned towards the meadow, and I saw that the trees were not moving at all. I had half-noticed, but without paying any particular heed, that the branches and brambles were waving beside the grotto.

I went on taking my stockings off, and was putting one foot into the water, when I heard the same sound in front of me. I looked up and saw a cluster of branches and brambles underneath the topmost opening in the grotto tossing and swaying to and fro, though nothing else stirred all around.

Behind these branches and within the opening, I saw immediately afterwards a girl in white, no bigger than myself, who greeted me with a slight bow of the head; at the same time, she stretched out her arms slightly away from her body, opening her hands, as in pictures of Our Lady; over her right arm hung a rosary.

I was afraid. I stepped back. I wanted to call the two little girls; I hadn’t the courage to do so. I rubbed my eyes again and again: I thought I must be mistaken.

Raising my eyes again, I saw the girl smiling at me most graciously and seeming to invite me to come nearer. But I was still afraid. It was not however a fear such as I have had at other times, for I would have stayed there for ever looking at her: whereas, when you are afraid, you run away quickly.

The lady or “girl” would return and communicate with Bernadette 16 times in the ensuing months. She is now known as Our Lady of Lourdes. Her timing was apt. Convulsed by the revolutions of 1848, the 19th-century was undergoing great changes.

Bernadette faced intense opposition from her parents, her teachers, her neighbors, the clergy and the local police, who threatened her with arrest. Her parents initially forbade her to return to the grotto. Many were converted to the view that she was telling the truth when they saw her experience one of her apparitions, so transfixed and transformed was this small, humble child. Twenty thousand people came to watch during the 14th apparition. But no one else saw what she saw or experienced the same incomparable ecstasy.

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A FEW days before he died of pancreatic cancer in 2013, my great friend Lawrence Auster, who had written for many years so courageously and truthfully on the topic of race, said something I will never forget.

He was sitting in his bed in a hospital near my home and looking out the window. In the brief interval between hospital procedures, when he was alert and feeling relatively well, he said something out of the blue.

“I believe in about a hundred years, all the races will be back in their homelands. Africans will live in Africa, Asians will live in Asia and Europeans will live in the West.” He gestured with his hands to suggest a great dispersal.

He didn’t say much more, being busy with the process of dying. But he didn’t need to because I knew what he meant. I knew that this was the inevitable conclusion of all he had written. It had a child-like simplicity and wisdom, but then truth often looks childish and simple in this way.

This simple and beautiful idea of geographic racial separation, so in accord with nature, so in accord with the spirit of Christian charity and God’s revealed plan for humanity, was the only solution to the modern Tower of Babel and a world gone mad with multiculturalism.

In the years since Mr. Auster died, the public rhetoric bitterly condemning the white race for a host of unforgivable sins, the psychological and political war against whites he wrote about, has dramatically intensified. The systematic discrimination against whites in hiring, college admissions, the arts and other facets of life that he also wrote about has dramatically intensified too, as he predicted it would.

Violent riots have been approved and applauded by government authorities and corporations. Monuments have been defaced and thrown down — not because they were about slavery but because they represented evil whites. A cartoonish “insurrection” was staged to vilify whites and a “racist” president rose and fell, with the powers-that-be obviously setting out to use him to make middle class whites look as crude and unlikeable as possible (of course, in many cases, they are crude and unlikeable). Corporations have stepped up to new levels of political correctness and favoritism for non-whites. And, of course, many whites, more ardently than ever, believe in the utopian creed of racial equality, so contrary to true and organic diversity. For some, nonwhites are just moral status symbols, not human beings. Let those who passionately believe race is a “social construct” find out for themselves that it is not. In most cases, it is pointless to try and convince them otherwise.

The mainstream media speaks of “white supremacy” and “white privilege” in a way it wouldn’t have just a few years ago and many whites devour these taunts with perverse pleasure, feeding the sick masochistic thrills Mr. Auster spoke of. The government has officially and ludicrously declared “white supremacists” to be the supreme threat.

All this was inevitable. The numbers are decisive. Whites have lost and are continuing to lose their demographic advantage, and non-whites, especially blacks, are being even more insistently and systematically, every day, incited to revenge and envy as a permanent mode of being. Why wouldn’t they be envious and resentful, given the immense political and monetary payoffs? We don’t live in a world governed by the spirit of Christian charity — and even so-called Christian leaders not only believe it is perfectly fine for some groups to revel in envy and resentment, but positively egg them on.

Racial division will always be a fact of the world, given the fallen human condition. But there is a long-range path toward relative peace, for America and Europe especially.

That path must involve geographic racial separation. The peoples of the world — all races — must have as much self-determination and cultural independence as possible, while seeking amicable trade and cultural exchanges. In Europe, this would mean the repatriation of millions of people — yes, millions — ideally over the course of many years to their ancestral homelands in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

The American Colonization Society, originally known as the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, knew the importance of racial homogeneity in the early nineteenth century when it tried to mobilize the funding and will to resettle freed blacks in Africa. Of course, the ACS is slandered as racist, but its leaders and many of its supporters were motivated by wisdom, generosity and good will toward freed blacks. They believed blacks would face heavy burdens in a white society even when they were not enslaved. Marcus Garvey, the black leader who inspired tens of thousands of black Americans to desire a  return to Africa, believed in this ideal of separation too. Unfortunately, despite the narrative of white oppression, the Colonization Society found that blacks didn’t want to go back to Africa and Garvey’s project was stymied by his enemies, who wanted to use blacks as pawns in a racial war they couldn’t have if blacks returned home.

While there are advantages for nonwhites to live in a white dominated society, as is obvious from the many “migrants” who have invaded Europe in recent years, there are also tremendous psychological pressures. Blacks are constantly told they can achieve complete equality. This equality is impossible, and will always be impossible, because of innate and unchangeable differences. The stress of seeking this illusory equality is undeniably and understandably the cause of much black anger, of the constant picking at the supposed wounds of the past.

As Arthur Kemp points out in his book The War Against Whites: The Racial Psychology behind the Anti-White Hatred Sweeping the West (Ostara, 2020), blacks can best cultivate pride in their very real achievements and abilities in a black society in Africa or in a separate black nation in North America. One African country, Ghana, in a remarkable act of reparation for its own sins in the slave trade, recently offered citizenship and aid to resettle to black Americans (only those who do not have a criminal record.) Other African nations could do the same.

As for whites, they — I mean, we — must not descend into bitterness and anger over our inevitable dispossession in a multicultural America or Europe. We must cultivate a spirit of good will and charity toward other races. At the same time, we must realize that the anti-white rhetoric of today will become the violence and theft of tomorrow. We must protect our heritage and future generations by seeking geographic racial separation in a more deliberate and organized way and as a long-term, gradually unfolding goal.

The first step toward separation is for whites themselves to stop internalizing the narrative of white guilt, an edifice of patent lies, and stop entertaining foolish notions of appeasement.

We must cultivate the will to separate, moving now whenever possible out of the major urban areas and to relatively white areas of the country (something whites have been doing instinctively for many years), but also we must strengthen their families, “be fruitful and multiply,” as God has commanded. The state of the family, and relations between men and women, are at the heart of our racial suicide. Contraception, abortion, divorce and remarriage, feminist careerism, delayed marriage, vilification of men — these are all elements of race suicide, as well as personal sins. We must cultivate true virtue and confidence in God. Our plight is most certainly a divine chastisement, something we should always bear in mind.

The political disintegration of America as it is now is will likely occur. We will lose many of our historic sites and institutions. Asians and Hispanics may be repatriated to their home countries or they may remain in a part of this country relatively devoid of whites. Time will tell. It may even be too late in the history of the world for us to achieve this end, but let us strive to make this ideal a reality and to make it as peaceful and dignified as possible for people of all races and ethnic groups, refusing animosity toward others and refusing to destroy our own. May God protect our hearts from all resentment, anger and obsessive fixation on racial realities, including suicidal hatred of ourselves.

The details will naturally fall in place once the will exists.

Although it is truly sad that Mr. Auster is no longer here to comment so incisively on our situation and to develop this objective, he said the last word. He left us with a clear plan for the future. Read More »

A SINGER who got his start in church choirs in Georgia at the age of six, Roy Hamilton is little known today, but his version of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” was a huge hit in 1954.

He faced illness early on his career and died at the age of 40.

In recognition of Black History Month and Hamilton’s forgotten struggles to produce wholesome popular music, here is a recording of his performance of the song. Compare this song to the degrading noise proffered as black music today, and weep.

Booker T. Washington

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON was “mercilessly ridiculed” by black liberals in the North for his insistence that blacks focus on improving themselves and not on attacking whites.

In recognition of Black History Month, here is an excerpt from “Du Bois vs. Washington: Old Lessons Black People Have Not Learned,” by Ellis Washington:

Although born a slave, Booker T. Washington triumphed against an overwhelming set of circumstances to become one of the great Black educators, speakers and university builders in American history. Perhaps even more amazing is that Washington was of such high moral character as to not have any hatred or animosity toward Whites. Neither did he manifest any psychological debilitation from suffering what had to be a traumatic childhood as a slave. One of the many maxims Washington followed was that, “It is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him.” He believed that racial reconciliation could only be gained through compromise and finding common ground even among the most radical White segregationists in the South. Washington further stated in his Atlanta speech:

The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

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ALAN writes:

The cast of television’s “Father Knows Best” appear in a 1959, 33-minute film called “Twenty-Four Hours in Tyrantland,” produced by Screen Gems television in co-operation with the U.S. Treasury Dept.  It is a dramatization of how tyranny becomes possible when people are gullible or apathetic enough to permit the enactment of non-objective laws and the surrender to government of arbitrary power that such laws make possible.  In light of two years of COVID Tyranny, it is well worth watching.

Father Jim Anderson (portrayed superbly by actor Robert Young) says to his apathetic children: “What would happen if everyone in America was as little concerned about our way of life as you are?  Why, freedom would go zinging right out the door. “

“Oh, you know that’s not going to happen,” his daughter Betty replies (portrayed by actress Elinor Donahue).

To which he responds, “It could happen much easier than you think.”

If Americans learned anything from such warnings, it was not evident in 2020 when they allowed their nation to be made into a kind of Tyrantland. Read More »

NOW Candlemas is come at last, therefore my dearest friend,
Since Christmas time is almost past, I mean to make an end
Of this our mirth and merriment, and now the truth to tell,
He must be from our presence sent, O Christmas, now farewell.
Now Christmas will no longer stay, my very heart doth grieve,
Before from us he take his way, of him I’ll take my leave:
It is a time none of the least, as I the truth may tell,
For him we’ll make a worthy feast, then Christmas, now farewell.
With nappy ale both brown and stale, we’ll fill our bumpers full,
And pippins too as I am true, they make the best lambswool:
So fast and smooth it will go down, thy sorrow to expel,
And then at last when all is past, Christmas we’ll bid farewell.

CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMAS EVE
by Robert Herrick

DOWN with the rosemary and bays,
Down with the misletoe ;
Instead of holly, now up-raise
The greener box (for show). Read More »

O GLORIOUS Virgin, ever blest,
Sublime above the starry sky,
Who nurture from thy spotless breast
To thy Creator didst supply.

What we had lost through hapless Eve,
The Blossom sprung from these restores,
And, granting bliss to souls that grieve,
Unbars the everlasting doors.

O Gate, through which hath passed the King.
O Hall, whence Light shone through the gloom;
The ransomed nations praise and sing
Life given from the Virgin womb.

All honor, laud, and glory be,
O Jesu, Virgin-born, to Thee;
All glory, as is ever meet,
To Father and to Paraclete.

TODAY, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, or Candlemas, is the last day of the liturgical Christmas season.

The angel-lights of Christmas morn,
Which shot across the sky,
Away they pass at Candlemas,
They sparkle and they die.

Comfort of earth is brief at best,
Although it be divine;
Like funeral lights for Christmas gone,
Old Simeon’s tapers shine. (Source)

Above is one more beautiful carol for the season.

It is based on the story of King Cnut, also known as Canute, and his visit to Ely Abbey on Candlemas in the eleventh century. Canute, of Denmark, was famous for his brutality in his invasion of England. “He came as an invader and ruthless destroyer, and by a change of temperament as remarkable as it was far-reaching in its effects, remained to rule, in justice and peace, a people whose part he wholly espoused. ” (Source)

The Clerk of Oxford tells the story:

“King Cnut was making his way to Ely by boat, accompanied by Emma, his queen, and the nobles of the kingdom, desiring to celebrate solemnly there, in accordance with custom, the Purification of St Mary, starting from which date the abbots of Ely are accustomed to hold, in their turn, their position of service in the royal court. When they were approaching the land, the king rose up in the middle of his men and directed the boatmen to make for the little port at full speed, and then ordered them to pull the boat forward more slowly as it came in. As he turned his eyes towards the church which stood out at a distance, situated as it was at the top of a rocky eminence, he heard the sound of sweet music echoing on all sides, and, with ears alert, began to drink in the melody more fully the closer he approached. For he realised that it was the monks singing psalms in the monastery and chanting clearly the Divine Hours. He urged the others who were present in the boats to come round about him and sing, joining him in jubilation. Expressing with his own mouth his joyfulness of heart, he composed aloud a song in English the beginning of which runs as follows: Read More »

AFTER reading this opinion piece about the truckers protesting in Ottawa by David Moscrop of The Washington Post, it occurred to me just how deep anti-trucker sentiment is among the “educated” and enlightened. Moscrop does not hold back, calling the dissident drivers “toxic,” “far-right,” “authoritarianist” and “insidious extremists.” You can find similar vitriol in other news pieces and in statements from politicians over the past few days.

This disdain perhaps does not apply only to the truckers protesting forced medical injections — the real issue at hand that Moscrop doesn’t even acknowledge, thus suggesting the truckers are engaging in indiscriminate, “anti-government” trouble-making — but to truckers as a class.

Truckers are part of the invisible class of men that keep the economy going by doing often unpleasant jobs. What could be worse?

** Truckers are overwhelmingly white men, i.e. they are “white supremacists”

** Truckers don’t go to college

** Truckers don’t go to diversity and inclusion seminars

** Truckers control our food supply

** Truckers drive big, big vehicles and are responsible for destroying the planet

** Truckers don’t read The Washington Post or listen to NPR

Whatever happens in the next few days in Ottawa, and however encouraging all the support from ordinary Canadians who have cheered the truckers on is, I predict truckers in general are not going to come out looking good, at least not in the news. I also believe those in power genuinely fear the trucker. He is organized with his brothers; he could refuse to participate in, or expose, deliberate sabotage of our supply lines; he is not easily seduced by propaganda and he could weaponize his vehicle. Expect truckers to be increasingly portrayed as villains in order to rally the people against them and ultimately to automate their jobs out of existence.

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Zeno writes:

Besides the general animus against truckers (and against working-class people in general, which is not new — but then, isn’t the Washington Post owned by a famous billionaire?), what strikes me is the expression used in the title, which I read as “toxic freedom”. Yes, I suppose the writer is applying it only to the “Freedom Convoy”, but it does seem to be a rant against “freedom” in general.

The same people who supposedly pushed “freedom” until recently — “freedom” to have sex with anyone, “freedom” to divorce, “freedom” to abort babies, now appear to be increasingly against freedom in any way or form — even the most basic freedoms of movement, of choosing which medicine to take, and even of protesting against unfair rules.

They really, really want us to be slaves, with no choice other than whatever the elites decide is “good”, and they will stop at nothing to do it — they will even turn us into cyborg automatons if they can. Scary stuff.

Laura writes:

Moscrop is guilty of projection.

He’s the insidious extremist and authoritarianist.

ANOTHER excerpt from Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Contemporary Books, 1979) by Robert S. Mendelsohn M.D. (read online for free):

When hospitals started relaxing visiting hours, they didn’t do it because they realized that people should be allowed to be with their family. They did it because pediatrics was dying and the beds in the pediatric wards were empty. They would have done anything to get children in there — let mothers, fathers, siblings, cats, or dogs in for a visit! Obstetrics is dying, too. People want to have their babies at home, not in the hospital. So today they’ll let anybody in the delivery room, husband, sister, mother, boyfriend … anybody! As long as they get the revenue.

What they’re counting on is that people will be lulled into feeling that the hospital really is the place for them, that the Temple really can save them. Of course, it can’t. The Temple has nothing to do with health. There are no facilities in hospitals for health or for any of the things commonly recognized as contributing to health. The food is as bad as you’d find in the [138] worst fast food drive-in. There are no facilities for exercise. All the personal factors that can make you well or keep you healthy are removed — family, friends, and sense of self. In no uncertain terms, when you walk into a hospital, you are surrendering — “Here | am, totally unable to help myself. You must save me. I am without power. All power is yours.”

Hospital costs are the biggest single element in the country’s total bill for medical “care.” That bill is rapidly overtaking defense, the Number One item on the country’s total bill for everything. When medicine exceeds defense, the Inquisition will really be unstoppable. No one seriously challenges whatever institution is the first item on the budget. Whatever costs more than anything else gathers bureaucratic inertia of such immense proportions that it controls the destiny of the country. Then the dream of Modern Medicine will be fulfilled: the whole country will become a hospital. We’ll all be patients in the Temple of Doom.

Read more here. [Not a blanket endorsement of Mendelsohn’s book.]

                                   Robert S. Mendelsohn

ROBERT S. Mendelsohn M.D. was a practicing physician for over 25 years. He was Chairman of the Medical Licensing Committee for the State of Illinois, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine of the University of Illinois, and received awards for excellence in medicine and medical instruction.

In his 1979 book, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, he denounced his profession and said modern medicine is religion, not science:

I believe that Modern Medicine’s treatments for disease are seldom effective, and that they’re often more dangerous than the diseases they’re designed to treat.

I believe the dangers are compounded by the widespread use of dangerous procedures for non-diseases.

I believe that more than ninety percent of Modern Medicine could disappear from the face of the earth — doctors, hospitals, drugs, and equipment — and the effect on our health would be immediate and beneficial.

I believe that Modern Medicine has gone too far, by using in everyday situations extreme treatments designed for critical conditions.

Every minute of every day Modern Medicine goes too far, because Modern Medicine prides itself on going too far. A recent article, “Cleveland’s Marvelous Medical Factory,” boasted of then Cleveland Clinic’s “accomplishments last year: 2,980 open-heart operations, 1.3 million laboratory tests, 73,320 electrocardiograms, 7,770 full-body x-ray scans, 24,368 surgical procedures.” Read More »

A Chip off the Old Block, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, New York; 1887

DO not be vexed at the contradictions you meet in ordinary intercourse, for they give an opportunity to practice the most precious and amiable virtues, which Our Lord has recommended to us. Believe me that true virtue is no more reared in outward repose, than good fish in the stagnant water of a swamp. How shall we prove our love for God, who has suffered so much for us, if not among contradictions and repugnances?

–—  St. Francis de Sales

Rembrandt, Man in Armor

FROM The Broad Stone of Honour; or, Rules for the Gentlemen of England by Kenelm Henry Digby (Rivington, London; 1823):

No man will be so hardy or so insensible as to deny the genius and the inimitable humour evinced by the author of Don Quixote, but with respect to the moral tendency of that work as affecting the ordinary class of mankind, in this or in any age, there will arise quite a legitimate subject for discussion. Many are the men of reflection who think with me that it is a book never to be read without receiving melancholy impressions, without feelings of deep commiseration for the weakness and for the lot of human nature.

What is the character of the hero in this history?

It is that of a man possessing genius, virtue, imagination and sensibility, all the generous qualities which distinguish an elevated soul, with all the amiable features of a disinterested and affectionate heart. Brave, equal to all that history has recorded of the most valiant warriors: loyal and faithful, never hesitating on the fulfilment of his promise; disinterested as he is brave, he contends but for virtue and for glory; if he desires to win kingdoms it is only to bestow them upon Sancho Panza; a faithful lover, a humane and generous warrior, a kind and affectionate master,  a gallant and accomplished gentleman — and this is the man whom Cervantes has represented as the subject of constant ridicule and of occasional reproach.

Without doubt there is an important lesson to be derived from the whole, the lesson which teaches the necessity of prudence and good sense, of moderation and respect for the institutions of society, of guarding the imagination from excess of exercise, and the feelings from an over excitement. But this is a lesson to be gently hinted to men of virtue, not to be proclaimed to the profane amidst the mockery of the world. This is not the lesson which the ordinary class of mankind will derive from it; and if it were, this is not the lesson of which it stands in need.

…. There is no danger in this enlightened age, as it is termed, of men becoming too heroic, too generous, too zealous in the defense of innocence, too violent in hatred of baseness and crime, too disinterested and too active in the cause of virtue and truth: the danger is quite on the other side: there is much to be apprehended from the ridicule which is cast upon sentiment, from the importance which attaches to personal convenience, from substituting laws for virtue, and prudence for devotion, from the calculating spirit of the commercial system, from the epicurean principles of enjoyment which are proclaimed by the modern philosophists. Cervantes exposed the knight errant to the ridicule of the world, but did he stop when he had done this? … Cervantes in exposing what he conceived to be the danger and absurdity of chivalrous sentiment, held up to mockery not alone the excess and the abuse, but the very reality of virtue.

[This excerpt has been divided into additional paragraphs.]

                                      Ida Tarbell

“HUMAN society may be likened to two great circles, one revolving within the other. In the inner circle rules the woman. Here she breeds and trains the material for the outer circle, which exists only by and for her. That accident may throw her into this outer circle is, of course, true, but it is not her natural habitat. Nor is she fitted by Nature to live and circulate freely there. What it all amounts to is that the labor of the world is naturally divided between the two different beings that people the world. It is unfair to the woman that she be asked to do the work of the outer circle. The man can do that satisfactorily if she does her part, that is, if she prepares him the material. Certainly, he can never come into the inner circle and do her work.”

— Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist and author