Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Are you a basket case of ingratitude?

ommencement season is upon us. And if I were giving one of the addresses this year, I’d begin with a quote from William F. Buckley Jr.: “We are basket cases of ingratitude, so many of us.” I repeat this from Buckley because we need to hear it. It’s not nostalgia for the pages of a conservative-movement gratitude journal. More recently, in an essay in First Things, Carl R. Trueman wrote about ingratitude…