The Hearts of Men

by Nickolas Butler

“It is a difficult thing, you see, to strive to be a good man. The whole world will try their level best to make you swerve, to bend your principles.

there seems an atmosphere everywhere these days in America, a malevolent vibration in the air, every citizen so quick to righteous rage, some tribal defensiveness, seeing the fault in each other’s arguments, rather than some larger common field of compromise, if not agreement.

This is tragically true today.