harry emerson fosdick

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 212

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 27, 2018

This is the grave of Harry Emerson Fosdick. Born in Buffalo in 1878, Fosdick graduated from Colgate in 1900 and then from Union Theological Seminary in 1904. He was a Baptist and got his first parish in Manhattan in 1903. He only stayed there a...

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ringtail I think in principle if there's a place for free speech maximalism, it's on a comedy stage. In practice, too many comedians are dicks about it and not funny.
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