Dr. Mark Canada will email you on Saturdays with a column on the world of ideas, especially literature and history. The newsletter will also include details about upcoming events and publications.
In this special edition of Mind Travel , we mark Constitution Day (September 17) here in the United States with a reflection on the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin, and his mulberry tree. Ideas can be powerful, important, and inspirational. They also can be rigid, divisive, and destructive. People make the difference. In 1787, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia were divided over ideas, specifically ideas about how the new government s
