The Methuselah Report never drafted a mission statement because the Board of Director believed such a document might create goals that would intimidate the writing staff, some of whom still admit being challenged by the order of letters in the alphabet. But, although no formal document of purpose was ever drafted, the consensus of the Board believes it is Methuselah's responsibility, whenever possible, to enhance the intellectual powers of our readers. If we try and fail, so be it. If we try and succeed, God bless us.
Which brings us, this posting, to our sincere wish that each of you out there on the blogosphere will pledge to read from cover to cover the December 2019 issue of the Atlantic Magazine. (A link to some of it is posted here.) The newly redesigned cover carries the headline, "How to Stop a Civil War." Every American would profit from this read.
Abraham Lincoln considered the Atlantic Monthly (its original name when it was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857) to be the most important public journal of that time. It was created as a literary and cultural magazine using leading writers of the day (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others) to address the important issues. That tradition has continued to this day, even though it posted its first profit in a decade in 2010.
Don't miss this issue.
