Gold Essay
Throughout my life, I have encountered many of these men and women in America. They are always salient standouts from the bland establishment crowd, whether their field of endeavor is academics, business, the arts, law, or science. They think for themselves. They make truth their authority, while others make authority their truth. In their eyes, life is not meant for comfort and security. It is a crucible. It is meant for the pursuit of something noble, something enduring. Truth and its exposition are the goals that transcend all else. At the risk of simplification, this is what drives all change and progress throughout history — this drive for the truth. It moves the entrepreneurs, the rebels, the contrarians of humankind.
his was the man I encountered at Adelmos. Bill Murphy embodies the contrarian spirit that built our country, the spirit that is willing to tackle the Gargantua of government when it is running roughshod over our rights….
