BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

Twenty-three years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave his exit address where he spoke eloquently about John Winthrop’s famed “Shining City Upon a Hill.” I only know this because I was listening to Tim Farley’s most excellent summation of this day in history on the POTUS station on XM/Sirius satellite radio, and I heard the audio of Reagan’s address.

In many ways, the Reagan address was kind of hokey.

He imagined the city upon a hill as a “tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace.”

Why does it have to be windswept? Chicago, for example, is windswept, or at least, it is pretty darn windy. Is Chicago the shining city on the Hill? Before he got to the windswept part though, he talked of a new nationalism, and he warned that most Americans didn’t know enough about their history. Continue reading →