Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Atlantic

    ‘Without Personal Honor There Is No Leadership’

    Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson emphasized the importance of truth in a commencement address at Virginia Military Institute that many interpreted as a rebuke to President Trump.
    by Conor Friedersdorf May 17, 2018 2 minutes
    Source: Leah Millis / Reuters

    Rex Tillerson spent 10 years as CEO of ExxonMobil before Donald Trump tapped him to be secretary of state, only to fire him from the position 14 months later. On Wednesday, he delivered a commencement address at the Virginia Military Institute, where he warned graduates that their democracy is in peril.

    “I observe a growing crisis of ethics and integrity,” he lamented,

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Atlantic

    The Atlantic3 min read
    They Rode the Rails, Made Friends, and Fell Out of Love With America
    The open road is the great American literary device. Whether the example is Jack Kerouac or Tracy Chapman, the national canon is full of travel tales that observe America’s idiosyncrasies and inequalities, its dark corners and lost wanderers, but ult
    The Atlantic6 min read
    There’s Just One Problem With Gun Buybacks
    One warm North Carolina fall morning, a platoon of Durham County Sheriff’s Office employees was enjoying an exhibit of historical firearms in a church parking lot. They were on duty, tasked with running a gun buyback, an event at which citizens can t
    The Atlantic8 min readAmerican Government
    The Return of the John Birch Society
    Michael Smart chuckled as he thought back to their banishment. Truthfully he couldn’t say for sure what the problem had been, why it was that in 2012, the John Birch Society—the far-right organization historically steeped in conspiracism and oppositi

    Related Books & Audiobooks