So I imagine that the 2016 presidential election will bring
both Republican and Democratic voters to the polls to vote who can identify
themselves with the Suffering Servant in the Suffering Servant Song.
In this way, perhaps our American covenant will hold in 2016
-- and not fall apart.
We'll see.
Happy Fourth of July!
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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)